Katie Ledecky earned the top honors tonight as the US Olympic Committee’s Female Athlete of the Olympic Games
Brazil Swimming: August 6-13 Olympic Aquatics Stadium
The International Olympic Committee has said that the sanctions against the group of 4 American swimmers is “adequate.”
August 01st, 2016  <a href="https://swimswam.com/news/international/brazil-and-latin-america/" rel="category tag">Brazil, Latin America &amp; Caribbean</a>, <a href="https://swimswam.com/news/international/" rel="category tag">International</a>, <a href="https://swimswam.com/news/" rel="category tag">News</a>, <a href="https://swimswam.com/news/rio-2016-olympic-games/" rel="category tag">Rio 2016 Olympic Games</a>
On each day of the official <a title="Olympic torch relay" href="http://swimswam.com/tag/olympic-torch-relay/" data-wpel-link="internal">Olympic torch relay</a>, carrying the Olympic flame to the Olympic cauldron in Rio de Janeiro, the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rio2016/?fref=photo" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external">Rio2016 Facbeook</a> page is posting brilliant and spectacular images from one of the world’s unique and most beautiful landscapes
On the 90th day of the <a href="https://swimswam.com/tag/olympic-torch-relay/" title="View more articles about Olympic torch relay" data-wpel-link="internal">Olympic torch relay</a> the torch travelled about 140 km south starting out in Cordeiro and ended up in Macaé
which is located on the coast bordering the ocean
Campos dos Goytacazes and Conceição de Macabu on the day
as it will conclude on Friday by entering Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro and lighting the Olympic flame to mark the official start to the Games and the official end of the relay
The person who lights the torch is kept as a secret until the actual ceremony
but it will likely be an icon in Brazilian sports
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