Few in Britain will have heard of Rohullah Nikpai but he is a hero in his native Afghanistan as the first Afghan to win an Olympic medal - for taekwondo - at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Mike Thomson went to meet the 24-year-old athlete in Kabul as he trains for next year's London games.
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