12-year-old Syrian refugee Hanan Dacka will have the honour to run with the Olympic Torch. The decision was taken by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Organising Committee of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Hanan, who arrived in Brazil in February 2015, lives with her family in Sao Paulo, speaks fluent Portuguese and has many Brazilian friends. She is not the first refugee to be chosen. Earlier Ibrahim Al Hussein, was selected to carry the torch in Athens. The Olympic flame has arrived in Brazil for the start of a torch relay that will culminate with the opening of the Games. It will pass through more than 300 towns and cities, from the Amazon to Brazil's southern border, arriving at the Maracana Stadium in Rio on August 5.