\"He's always, always looking forward,\" his girlfriend said.

A recent trip to Korea forced him to alter that. There, the press began a quest into his background, one that yielded someone claiming to be his father - until he was asked to take a DNA test.

There have been two other claims since, he said.

\"It's very emotional,\" he said. \"I've definitely had people looking for me, but I didn't want to know until after this Olympics. When I could get a little more involved in the search. I'm very interested. I mean, everybody wants to see what their parents look like - see where I got my good looks from.\"