When the archer met the ‘sambista’ at the Rio 2016 test event...
With the Olympic archery competition to be staged at Sambódromo, the home of Rio carnival, a samba musician and an archer exchanged tips during the recent test event
Hey mister tambourine man... Roque da Silva (left) and Oliveira at the Sambódromo (Rio 2016/Julio Stotz)
Some of the best archers in the world took part in the Rio 2016 test event at the Sambódromo, the home of Rio carnival, last month. The eight-day event featured 120 athletes from 28 countries.
Among them was Brazil’s Bernardo Oliveira and during a break from training and competition, the 22-year-old met another character who performs to the highest level of his vocation at the same venue – sambista Carlos Henrique Roque da Silva.
The 19-year-old plays tambourine in the rhythm section of the famous Estácio de Sá samba school, which has taken part in the Carnival Parade since 1927.
Check out the video below to see what happened when Oliveira showed Roque da Silva how to use a high-performance bow and arrows, and Roque da Silva showed Oliveira how to bang out a rhythm on his tambourine...
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