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Mohamed Sbihi to make history as Team GB’s first Muslim Olympic flagbearer

  • ‘It is such an honour,’ says Rio gold medal-winner
  • Sailor Hannah Mills will join rower at opening ceremony

The gold medal-winning rower Mohamed Sbihi will make history on Friday after being announced as the first Muslim to carry the British flag at an Olympic opening ceremony. He will be joined by another gold medallist, the sailor Hannah Mills, a campaigner for clean oceans and the eradication of single use plastic in sport.

It is the first time that two competitors will be able to carry the flag after the IOC announced last year that each national Olympic committee could nominate one female and one male athlete as flag bearers.

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