Muhammad Yunus, the brains behind the drive of the Paris Olympics organisers to connect the Games to less privileged parts of society, set aside his personal anguish over the civil strife in his native Bangladesh to hail the impending event as an inspiration for other sports competitions.
The 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureat said that since becoming Paris's go-to guru on a more sustainable Olympic Games, world football's governing body Fifa had approached him to address a regional conference on the issue of social impact projects.
