Claudia Alarcón is in charge of AMEBRAS, an NGO which helps female prisoners and artisans from poor communities to sell their work. "It's so emotional to carry the torch. I'm shaking," she said after her run today in Lajes.

Father José Roberto Rocha has been a parish priest in Lajes since 2010. "The humanity, peace and unity of the Games are completely in line with the spirit of the Gospel," the torchbearer said this morning.