• Sometimes the sheer emotion of carrying the Olympic flame is too much for the torchbearers.

  • Poliana Botelho, who has just signed to fight in the UFC, carried the torch in Muriaé, only after showing off a few of her moves. "I used to be chubby, but I started to train and was soon called up to fight. I always represent my city when I fight."

  • Pedro Roca "Pedrão" da Silva, is the leader of percussion at the Unidos de Santa Teresinha samba school. "We came to showcase our samba theme. We will bring more joy to the torch procession. I want to thank the kids in the band for taking part."

  • The meeting point for the torch bearers is at the Colégio Estadual Desembargador Canedo where the pupils have carefully prepared posters on the theme of the Olympic torch. The school is part of Transforma, the Rio 2016 education programme.

  • Rio 2016

    The torches are already in Muriaé, waiting for the bearers who will carry them in the Olympic Torch Relay.

  • Muriaé

    Muriaé, a municipality of 100,000 inhabitants in the Minas Gerais countryside will be the third on Monday (16) to host the torch relay. It will also be the last municipality in Minas to receive the Rio 2016 Olympic Torch.

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Mon, 16 May

Muriaé, MG

  • Itinerary

•Avenida Marechal Floriano & Rua Gil Moreira
Pedestrian route
Driving route
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