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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):

3:20 p.m.

Suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff says she's sad to be missing out on the Olympics festivities as Rio gears up to Friday night's opening ceremony.

Rousseff will be watching from the presidential palace in Brasilia, where she's been holed up since being suspended in May on impeachment charges. She says on Twitter that she'll still be rooting for Brazil even if she can't attend in person.

Her predecessor and mentor, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who led the Brazilian efforts to bring the first Olympics to South America, said he's not even planning to watch it.