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The Latest: Brazil arrives, and the party really begins

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the Rio de Janeiro Summer Games opening ceremony (all times local):

10:45 p.m.

Years from now, organizers of the Rio Games hope there's 11,000 new trees in Brazil — one for each athlete at the Rio Games.

Each Olympian who entered the opening ceremony at Maracana Stadium on Friday night was given a seed and a cartridge of soil, which was to be placed in mirror towers all over the stage floor. Those cartridges will be taken to Deodoro and form what will be called the Athletes' Forest.