page_title: 2016 Summer Olympics
section_title: Torch relay
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 Summer Olympics / Development and preparation / Torch relay
caption_attribution_description: A cidade de São Paulo recebeu neste domingo (24) o revezamento da tocha olímpica. O percurso começou pouco antes das 8h, em frente ao Museu do Ipiranga, e percorreu pontos importantes da capital, como o Obelisco do Ibirapuera (Mausoléu ao Soldado Constitucionalista de 1932), Pinacoteca do Estado, Estação da Luz, Estádio do Pacaembu e o Memorial da América Latina. Foto: Daniel Guimarães/ A2IMG
context_page_description: The 2016 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXI Olympiad and commonly known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event that was held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August. Rio was announced as the host city at the 121st IOC Session in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 2 October 2009.
  More than 11,000 athletes from 205 National Olympic Committees took part, including first-time entrants Kosovo, South Sudan, and the Refugee Olympic Team. With 306 sets of medals, the games featured 28 Olympic sports, including rugby sevens and golf, which were added to the Olympic program in 2009. These sporting events took place at 33 venues in the host city and at five separate venues in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Brasília, and Manaus.
  These were the first Olympic Games ever to be held in South America. They were also the first to be held in a Portuguese-speaking country, the first summer edition to be held entirely in the host country's winter season, the first since 1968 to be held in Latin America, and the first since 2000 to be held in the Southern Hemisphere.
context_section_description: The Olympic flame was lit at the temple of Hera in Olympia on 21 April 2016, the traditional start of the Greek phase of the torch relay. On 27 April the flame was handed over to the Brazilian organisers at a ceremony at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. A brief stop was made in Switzerland to visit the IOC headquarters and the Olympic Museum in Lausanne as well as the United Nations Office at Geneva.
  The torch relay began its Brazilian journey on 3 May at the capital Brasília. The torch relay visited more than 300 Brazilian cities (including all the 26 states capitals and the Brazilian Federal District), with the last part held in the city of Rio de Janeiro, lighting the cauldron during the 2016 Summer Olympics opening ceremony on 5 August.
caption: Torch relay in São Paulo, with the basketball player Anderson Varejão
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