Yunus carries Olympic torch at Rio 2016

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, wearing elegant Olympic athlete uniform carried the Olympic torch on the final leg of the Olympic torch relay in Rio de Janeiro in the build up to the opening of the 2016 Games.

Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus Source: Flickr/University of Salford Press Office

He received the flame from senior IOC representative James Tompkins in a brief ceremony of transferring the flame from his torch and walked 200 metres with the flame to loud applause and cheers of the flood of crowds on the streets.