Rio Games flame lit at ancient Olympia

Rio Games flame lit at ancient Olympia

The Olympic blaze for the Rio Games was lit in age-old Olympia in Greece on Thursday, ablution the bake broadcast for the first-ever South American Games that accept been overshadowed by Brazil's political crisis.

International Olympic Committee admiral Thomas Bach said the Rio Games would go advanced "in a apple annoyed by crises" but added that "these Olympic Games will be a bulletin of achievement in afflicted times -- and the blaze will backpack this bulletin into all corners of Brazil, and indeed, all the world."

Rio Games flame lit at ancient Olympia

The four-month Olympic bake broadcast will cantankerous allotment of Greece and array of Brazilian cities afore it arrives at Rio's Maracana Stadium for the August 5 Games aperture ceremony.

Overall, some 12,000 torchbearers will backpack the blaze through Brazil.

In Greece, in a action to the greatest clearing crisis adverse Europe back Apple War II, the bake will canyon on April 26 through the refugee affected of Eleonas in Athens, area one of the hundreds of refugees housed there will backpack the flame.

A UN refugee bureau antecedent on Thursday told AFP it will be a Syrian man who absent his leg in the civilian war, and has been active and alive in Athens afterwards getting accepted cover in Greece.

The IOC has aswell appear that a aggregation of up to 10 refugees will yield allotment at the Rio Olympics.

Preparations in Rio accept been overshadowed by a government crisis, with Admiral Dilma Rousseff adverse allegation afterwards getting accused of bamboozlement government accounts to beard account shortfalls during her 2014 reelection.

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