bairrosfelipe Posted May 3, 2016 Report Posted May 3, 2016 TORCH RELAY - 1st DAY - BRASILIA PART 2 Syrian refugee during the Olympic torch relay in Brasilia The start of the relay of the torch in the Planalto Palace. President of the Brazilian Olympic Committee carrying the flame Government of the Federal District (Brasilia) with the torch. Thiago Pereira (swimmer)
adrianme17 Posted May 4, 2016 Report Posted May 4, 2016 Great pics! The joy of the torch relay is really something else & one of my great memories of London 2012! Enjoy it Brazil!
olympic2016 Posted May 4, 2016 Report Posted May 4, 2016 Brazil: Rousseff supporters sent flying as security enforce Olympic torch relay
guilherme Posted May 4, 2016 Report Posted May 4, 2016 Syrian refugee carries Olympic torch through Brasilia http://www.unhcr.org/5728cd996.html Syrian refugee carries Olympic torch through Brasilia
gotosy Posted May 4, 2016 Report Posted May 4, 2016 Rio 2016 @Rio2016_en The #OlympicFlame was surrounded by culture and tradition in Pirenópolis #RoadToRio Olympics, NBC Olympics, 7Olympics and 3 others
bairrosfelipe Posted May 5, 2016 Report Posted May 5, 2016 TORCH RELAY - 2nd DAY Pirenópolis - Goias State Population: 20.460 Celebration in Matriz Church with local costumes. Famous brazilians singers Zezé Di Camargo e Luciano with the torch. Lupércio Lima, prominent international balloonist, made a demonstration sport and used the torch to light the flame balloon Source: Brasil 2016.
JMarkSnow2012 Posted May 5, 2016 Report Posted May 5, 2016 TORCH RELAY - 2nd DAY Source: Brasil 2016. It's nice to see a mascot that can be used on posters all over the place without making everybody cringe !
TorchbearerSydney Posted May 5, 2016 Report Posted May 5, 2016 Looking like a lot of fun! Brazil ENJOY, and to the Torchbearers, welcome to the club!
JMarkSnow2012 Posted May 5, 2016 Report Posted May 5, 2016 I'm not seeing any torch-extending action so far. Also, the security people seem quite obtrusive:
bairrosfelipe Posted May 6, 2016 Report Posted May 6, 2016 TORCH RELAY - 3rd DAY Inhumas - Goias State Population: 51.543 Itaberai - Goias State Population: 34.412 Goias - Goias State Population: 24.727 Source: Brasil 2016.
zigzag Posted May 6, 2016 Report Posted May 6, 2016 I'm not seeing any torch-extending action so far. Also, the security people seem quite obtrusive: Have you watch this video before? The Brazilian torch relay for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics has kicked off with volleyball player Fabiana Claudino running the first leg after the torch was ignited by embattled President Dilma Rousseff Notice that it seems like the torch-extending action happened before that torch can recieve the flame...
JMarkSnow2012 Posted May 6, 2016 Report Posted May 6, 2016 Notice that it seems like the torch-extending action happened before that torch can recieve the flame... The extending has to happen before the torch can be lit- but they seem to have decided that it should normally happen before the cameras start rolling. Also, while I'm niggling- my hope on 22 April that the sootiness of the upper part of the torch was just the result of the natural fuel of the original Olympia torch seems to have been dashed. Every torch looks grimy round the top by the time it gets to light the next one in the relay.
baron-pierreIV Posted May 6, 2016 Report Posted May 6, 2016 The extending has to happen before the torch can be lit- but they seem to have decided that it should normally happen before the cameras start rolling. Which goes to prove that the torch-extension move is just a gimmick which doesn't really work in the flow of the Relay. Useless, unnecessary expense -- wasted effort. And even in museums, you won't see docents pulling apart and popping this torch. Truly gimmicky.
JMarkSnow2012 Posted May 6, 2016 Report Posted May 6, 2016 Which goes to prove that the torch-extension move is just a gimmick which doesn't really work in the flow of the Relay. Useless, unnecessary expense -- wasted effort. And even in museums, you won't see docents pulling apart and popping this torch. Truly gimmicky. Non-professional footage is likely to provide our best views of it- as in the first of these two: ... whereas the second shows why it's much less practical than hoped ...
TeamBlakeUSA Posted May 7, 2016 Report Posted May 7, 2016 Celebrities Can Hold The Some Olympic Torch.
JMarkSnow2012 Posted May 7, 2016 Report Posted May 7, 2016 I really don't know quite what to make of this one ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me1g9aUDxs8
baron-pierreIV Posted May 7, 2016 Report Posted May 7, 2016 I really don't know quite what to make of this one ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me1g9aUDxs8 Well, the wheelchair guy tried to get up w/o clear control of his weak foot. That's why. And at least there haven't been the many burn-outs of the unwieldy 2014 torch.
JMarkSnow2012 Posted May 8, 2016 Report Posted May 8, 2016 It's always nice to see the flame going to places the commercial convoy can't quite reach ...
JMarkSnow2012 Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 I really don't know quite what to make of this one ! Dead link replaced with the Wayne Enterprises version.
baron-pierreIV Posted May 10, 2016 Report Posted May 10, 2016 Dead link replaced with the Wayne Enterprises version. Poor guy thought the torch healed him -- which is why he lurched forward. Get a refund, chico!! ;-)
JMarkSnow2012 Posted May 12, 2016 Report Posted May 12, 2016 Here's a little phone video showing the torch extension quite clearly:
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