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AP A picturesque start to the torch relay on the opening day of the Games
Raw: Olympic Torch at Christ the Redeemer
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Former Brazilian volleyball player and Olympic medalist Isabel Barroso Salgado carried the Olympic torch at the Christ the Redeemer statue on Friday, ahead o...
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CNN The Olympic torch is carried through Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro.
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AP The Olympic torch made its way through downtown Rio de Janeiro on Thursday night and will continue its journey on Friday before reaching the Olympic opening ceremony.
Raw: Olympic Torch in Downtown Rio
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The Olympic torch made its way through downtown Rio de Janeiro on Thursday night. A small symbolic cauldron was lit there. The torch continues its journey on...
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Yahoo More than 12,000 torchbearers have carried the Olympic flame across 329 Brazilian cities since May 3.
Olympic torch met with protests, attempts to extinguish on way into Rio
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As the Olympic torch made its way into Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, protests continued to follow the…
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Washington Post World “I want to have a little of the feeling the ancient Greeks had when it passed,” said librarianship student Tatiana Leal, 38, after photographing the torch.
Rio succumbed to the Olympic spirit when the torch landed — but not for long
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With samba dancers, drumming and a heavy police presence, the Olympic torch landed in Rio on Wednesday.
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Reuters The name of the final torch bearer is a closely guarded secret: http://reut.rs/2aueHqj
Torch alights on Rio shore ahead of Games' opening
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Brazilian sailors delivered the Olympic torch to Rio de Janeiro's mayor on Wednesday, two days before South America's first Olympic Games open under tight security.
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Washington Post World A video posted to YouTube showed a group of a hundred or so demonstrators chanting threats to put out the torch while holding a banner emblazoned with the Olympic rings and the phrase “exclusion games.”
Protests greet Olympic torch in Rio satellite towns
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A police officer pepper sprays demonstrators when a scuffle broke out during a protest against the money spent on the Rio's 2016 Summer Olympics on the route of the olympic torch, in Niteroi, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016. (Leo Correa/AP) RIO DE JA Read more ... NEIRO -- The Olympic torch faced at least three di...
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NBC News Protesters in Brazil took to the streets during the Olympic torch relay, forcing the torch bearer onto a bus with an extinguished flame.
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NBC News The man tried to break through a line of security guards to grab the flame as the the torch bearer ran by.
Man Arrested for Trying to Steal Olympic Torch in Brazil
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A man was wrestled to the ground and detained after he tried to steal the Olympic torch as it passed through Guarulhos.
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Yahoo News Meanwhile, at the Rio Olympic Games...Brazil just killed its own mascot.
Rare amazon jaguar shot, killed after Olympic torch lighting ceremony
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“We made a mistake in permitting the Olympic torch, a symbol of peace and unity, to be exhibited alongside a chained wild animal."
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