BRASÍLIA: Embattled President Dilma Rousseff greeted the Olympic flame in Brazil on Tuesday, promising not to allow a raging political crisis, which could see her suspended within days, to spoil the Rio Games.

Rousseff promised "the most successful Olympic Games in history."

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