Li has licked them all

Although he picked up the first prize at an Olympic-themed stamp exhibition in Sydney in 2004, collector Li Jingbo, from Changzhou of Jiangsu province, remained unsatisfied with his collection Cycling as a Sport.

Now he's happy: His collection won him both a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Expo Stamp Exhibition and an International Olympic Committee award as well.

With nearly 1,000 stamps collected from more than 120 countries, Cycling as a Sport vividly depicts the timeline of bicycle history, including 59 extremely rare bicycle-themed stamps issued before the 1900s.