The Olympic Flame lands in Brazil as Andy Murray begins Madrid title defence with win and Lizzie Armitstead pledges future to Boels-Dolmans team. Here’s our review of the last 24 hours in Olympic sport:
The flame itself was lit at the temple of Hera in Greece, last month, before being relayed to Athens.
From there it travelled to Geneva where, in specially built lanterns, the flame was loaded onto a plane bound for Brasilia.
The plane touched down on South American soil yesterday before Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff lit the Olympic torch from the flame.
"The Olympic torch will be received with joy in all cities in our immense Brazil," Ms Rousseff said. "The flame will illuminate a hospitable and responsible country."
The torch was passed to Brazilian volleyball captain Fabiana Claudino to begin the three-month relay which will see the flame carried around Brazil by 12,000 runners.
The relay will take the torch through more than 300 towns and cities on its route to the Maracana Stadium for the Rio Olympic Games opening ceremony on August 5.
The world number two won the opening set on a tie-break and after dropping the second set he raced through the decider to complete a 7-6 (7-3) 3-6 6-1 win over the world number 148.
After receiving a bye in the first round, Murray edged past the former Wimbledon quarter-finalist and will play either France’s Gilles Simon or Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta in the third round on Thursday.
“The first couple of sets he played great, he was taking a lot of risks,” said Murray.
“Not loads of the match was played on my terms but in the third set I started to use a little bit more height to make it tougher for him to generate pace and that got me a few more errors in the third set, but it was very tough.”
The Scotsman beat Rafael Nadal in the final of last year’s tournament and the two could meet in this year’s semi-final if they both make it that far.
On Tuesday it was also announced that the pair would both play at this year’s Aegon Championships, at London’s Queen’s Club, in June.
Armitstead, who is the current world road race champion after triumphing in Richmond in 2015, inked a deal which ensures she will be at Boels-Dolmans through the 2018 season.
Team manager Danny Stam has also signed through to the end of 2018, by which time the duo will have been at the team for five years.
Since winning the World Championship, Armitstead has found sustained success – already triumphing at the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Strade Bianche, Trofeo Alfredo Binda and the Tour of Flanders in 2016.
And the 27-year-old is ecstatic to be able to continue to grow alongside the Boels-Dolmans squad.
"Over the past few years the team has gone through a development which has brought us collectively to a high level of cycling," said Armitstead.
"We always approach each race to win as a team and often only need a look or a sign to know what is about to happen.
"I have achieved my greatest sports successes in this environment and look forward to continuing my career here.
"We have a solid and professional organisation standing behind us, which enables us to maintain our current high level of performance.”
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Sportsbeat 2016