He was one of the 4x100 metre team that won Trinidad and Tobago's first-ever Olympic medal in Tokyo in 1964, just two years after his nation gained independence from Britain.
The next section is a hall of torches from every modern Olympic Games since 1936 -- a range of designs that include some that look like broom sticks (Atlanta, 1996), machetes (Sydney, 2000) and lightsabers (Tokyo, 1964).