Day 40 OlympicTorch Bulletin Palmas kickedoff the airborne stretch of the Rio 2016 Olympic Torch Relay. Given the large distances between towns in Brazil s North region, the following days will beginwith a flight to take the torch to the municipality where the relay will beheld. The torch waswelcomed at the city s airport by Lucio Monteiro, who has been nicknamed Tochão( Big Torch ) because of his costume. He made his first appearance in Corumbáde Goiás and he was invited to carry the Olympic torch in Uberlândia, fromwhere he returned to his home town. The dentist said that he arrived in theearly hours of the morning to spend the day in the state capital of Tocantins, followingthe torch, and he returned to Goiânia in the early morning today. It svalentine s Day, and if I don t return, my wife will fight with me, he joked. Caipiras doborocoxó is number one in the Brazilian Confederation of June Party Groups ranking.the group came to enliven the Olympic torch relay in Palmas. Retiree AlceuCatapan is a pioneer in the development of sport in Tocantins. He founded the Athens Athletics Association after getting excited about the Athens 2004Olympic Games. The project has so far contributed to social inclusion for 2,000children through football. I feel a huge amount of emotion. I don t know howto describe it. I couldn t watch the Olympic Games in Greece close-up, buttoday they have come to me, he said. Luiz HenriqueÁvila was thrown out of home by his parents at the age of just 12, because heis gay. With the help of friends, he managed to re-establish his life andregain family ties, and he now runs a project to help the LGBT community in thestruggle for their rights. I went through hard times to make people respectme, and today everyone is proud of my work and who I am. I want this flame toshow the world that everybody ought to be respected, regardless of their sexualpreferences. I fight so that other people don t go through what I experienced, he said.
Maurício ThomasCosta is a general surgeon in Palmas and he sees many patients every day in thepublic health service. His routine is constantly stressful and he needs to bevery focused all the time. To relieve his everyday stress, he does severalsports, including tennis, basketball and running. Carrying the Olympic flamegave me a great emotion. I was recommended by some students at the universitywhere I am a professor. I am very grateful for this. I feel like an athlete, hesaid. RogérioQueiroz is a canoeist and one of the pioneers in this sport in Tocantins. Hetook up the sport for fun, but he has now been training and competing at elitelevel for 20 years. Unfortunately, the sport is not highly valued in Brazil. Givenall our rivers and coastline, our country should have many more canoeists. Wewill have some representatives at the Rio Games and this will make our sportmore visible. Carrying the Olympic torch was great recognition, he said. JulianaCaixeta is a nutrition student and she has long dreamed of participating in thegames. She has played several different sports and she will be a volunteer at Rio2016. Her parents play peteca (a Brazilian game like volleyball, but using akind of shuttlecock), and they have always encouraged her to do sport. I vealways been into sport, whether watching or playing volleyball and handball. Iwill be volunteering and I can t wait to start. Carrying the flame was a way tomake my dream of participating in the Games come true, she said. Pedro Araújo leftbrasília in 1996 to open the city s first taekwondo gym. After that, he founded the state federation and helped get the sport into the state s educationprogrammes. He also runs a taekwondo social project in poor areas, to help findtalented youngsters. I am representing the 30 children who take part in theproject. I hope they feel motivated and continue to play the sport, he said. Junio Vieira begancycling late in life. At the age of 37, he bought a bike and began to go onbike rides for fun, but it soon became a passion. His initial poor results gaveway to podium appearances after he intensified his training. Being close to myfamily at such a special moment is very striking. I was very surprised that my relativelyshort cycling career was recognised, he said.
JanildesSilva is going to her fourth Olympic Games as a cyclist, having taken part inthe Sydney, Athens and London editions. She competes in time trial cycling andhas represented Brazil for 20 years. I have been to several Games, butcarrying the Olympic flame in my town is very different and a great source ofhappiness. Now I will be competing in Rio with even more enthusiasm anddedication, she said. In the 1980s,Túlio de Oliveira did his medical residency in the area of ophthalmology and he took part in the first triathlon ever held in Brazil. He moved to the thenrecently created state of Tocantins in 1988, to work as a doctor, and he neededto give up the sport. However, he told himself that when he turned 60, he wouldparticipate in a competition to prove that age is not a limiting factor for theplaying of sport. He achieved his goal in 2014, and today he inspires colleagues,participating in many competitions. Tomorrow I have a competition. I will be swimming 750 m, cycling 20 km and running 5 km, he said. His coach is AndréVillarinho, who carried the torch in Goiânia and came to watch his friend dothe same in Palmas. PedroHenrique is an administrator with a degree from the Illinois Institute oftechnology in Chicago. He was responsible for developing a device called eyeswim,which helps people with visual impairments to swim. After the project won aprize in another country, I was motivated to return to Brazil to work on this, he said. Indigenousperson Ismael Suzawre Xerente was a striker on the winning football team atlast year s World Indigenous Games. He is also about to get a degree in socialwork from the Federal University of Tocantins. I want to fight for our rights.we are still unfairly discriminated against in Brazil. For this reason, it isvery important for us to also be represented in the relay, he said. EnnilaraSilva took up judo at a young age and she has never stopped playing it. Sincethe age of six, she has put on her kimono practically every day, training toachieve her main goal, to take part in the Olympic Games. I haven t yet beenable to participate in the Games, but carrying the flame has encouraged me tostrive to achieve my other objective, which is to play for my country, shesaid. Today(Sunday, 12 June), São Luís, the state capital of Maranhão, will receive theolympic flame. In Palmas, 135 people carried the Olympic torch.
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