With the lighting of the Olympic Flame in Ancient Olympia last week and the start of the Olympic Torch Relay, there is a growing sense that the Games are just around the corner. Another milestone in the countdown was completed today as the Flame was officially handed over to Rio 2016 - on 100 days to go - at a special ceremony held at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, the venue for the inaugural Olympic Games of the modern era back in 1896.
Before embarking on its three-month journey around Brazil, which starts in Brasilia on 3 May and will see it being carried by 12,000 people through every state capital and over 300 towns en route to the Maracana Stadium in Rio, the Olympic Flamewill make a short stopover in Switzerland. Following a ceremony at United Nations in Geneva on Friday, it will briefly go on display at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.
Shooting sport events in Rio will start in… 101 days. Shooting will indeed assign the very first Gold medal of the Games on the 6th of August, the day after the Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony.
Starting from there, 390 shooters coming from all over the world will compete in the 15 Olympic shooting events - in the disciplines of Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun Shooting - at the Olympic Shooting Center in Deodoro.
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