On each day of the official Olympic torch relay, carrying the Olympic flame to the Olympic cauldron in Rio de Janeiro, the Rio2016 Facbeook page is posting brilliant and spectacular images from one of the world’s unique and most beautiful landscapes. Each day until August 5th, we will bring you these stunning images.
Note: we originally reported that the torch went through Sertãozinho, Jaboticabal, Bebedouro, Barretos, and Franca on this day, but in actuality it went through Rio Claro, Limeira, American and Campinas, all in Sao Paulo.
Check out the images from day 77:
Rio2016/Fernando Soutello
Rio2016/Fernando Soutello
Rio2016/Fernando Soutello
Rio2016/Andre Luiz Mello
Rio2016/Andre Luiz Mello
Rio2016/Fernando Soutello
Rio2016/Andre Luiz Mello
Rio2016/Andre Luiz Mello
Rio2016/Andre Luiz Mello
Rio2016/Andre Luiz Mello
Rio2016/Andre Luiz Mello
Rio2016/Fernando Soutello
Rio2016/Andre Mourao
Wow emotional
Jason, just some small “correction”.
Bebedouro while on free translation would mean “Water cooler” is actually a corruption of old portuguese and it is related to the verb Beber (Drink in English), and on the late 1800s was a stop place for travelers (Normally guys who worked on local farms who were traveling with cow and others). The hunting one I heard it too, but the official origin is the one I put here.
I am native from Bebedouro (Don´t live there now anymore but).. so just a little explanation 😀
Also the torch carrier in Bebedouro is a master swimmer. At 2015 (87 YEARS old then) he was ranked first on 100 fly and 400 free relay, he was… Read more »