Leander Paes
Leander Paes, the Olympics run in the family and his record seventh appearance at the Games represents another landmark in a career which has straddled three bruising decades.
The 43-year-old jokes that he was even conceived during the Olympics -- in 1972 in Munich where his father Vece played in India's bronze-medal winning hockey team and mother Jennifer played in the basketball.
Paes himself went on to win a bronze medal in singles at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.