RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Rio de Janeiro, the host city of the 2016 Olympic Games, lit its ceremonial Olympic pyre on Thursday night in a symbolic act to pass the baton to Tokyo, its successor, which will inaugurate the 2020 Olympic Games on Friday.
The ceremony that marks the passing of the baton from one host city to its successor, in which two children, students at a municipal Olympic village, lit the Olympic cauldron of Brazil's most emblematic city, was attended by the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, and the Japanese consul general in the city, Ken . . .
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