Brazil President Dilma Rousseff Unveils 2016 Rio Olympics Torch Friday July 3, 2015

  

President Dilma Rousseff and President of the Brazilian Olympic Committee Carlos Arthur Nuzman during the presentation of the Rio 2016 Olympic torch in Brasilia on Friday July 3, 2015

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has unveiled the torch to be used at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Friday July 03,2015

 

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff 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," 

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

People photograph the Olympic torch with their cell phones after it was presented during a ceremony in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, July 3, 2015