Latvian, 72, travels to London on a bicycle
A 72-year-old Latvian, Leontis Romanovskis, chose an unusual mode of transport to visit the Olympic host city - a bicycle.
He claims to have covered around 27,000 miles cycling across Europe over the past eight years, in an effort to test his fitness after fighting diabetes.
BBC Russia's Yuri Zhuravel reports.
10 Aug 2012
- From the section World