He'd prefer enlightenment to a medal, but when Japan's horse-riding Buddhist monk Kenki Sato saddles up for London 2012, he'll be representing one of the Olympics' more unusual families.
Zara Phillips, who missed out on competing at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games when her star horse Toytown limped out with injury, is counting on no similar ill-luck befalling her at London 2012.