Olympic Torch Rio 2016

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has unveiled the torch to be used at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the Games would bring “honour and pride” to the country and we will rise to the challenge and organise a safe and successful games.

She said 12,000 people would be chosen to carry the Olympic torch through some 300 Brazilian cities next year.

“We are now 399 days from the opening of the Olympic Games and on August 5 the whole world will look at us, will see the Olympic flame light up,” Ms Rousseff said at a ceremony in Brasilia.

The torch relay will begin in the Brazilian capital in May and will end at Rio’s Maracana stadium in August, at the Olympic’s opening ceremony.

The Olympics organising committee and sponsors will choose the torchbearers in the next few months. Each person will carry torch for 300 meters.