Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff (L) and Rio 2016 Olympic Games Organising Committee President Carlos Arthur Nuzman applaud next to an Olympic torch model during a ceremony where the Rio Organizing Committee presented the torch and relay route for the Rio 2016 Games in Brasilia, Brazil, July 3, 2015. REUTERS/Wenderson Araujo
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - About 12,000 people will be chosen to carry the Olympic torch around Brazil in the three months leading up to next year's Games in Rio de Janeiro, organisers announced on Friday.
"There will be around 12,000 torch bearers that will carry the Olympic flame across some 300 cities and towns in the 26 Brazilian states, plus the Federal District, for 90 to 100 days," the organising committee said in a statement.
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