News Japanese car manufacturer Nissan handed over a fleet of 4,200 cars to the Rio 2016 organising committee at a ceremony in the world-famous sambódromo on Monday (11 July) Hortência Marcari, a former basketball player who won silver at Atlanta 1996, accepted a symbolic key from the head of Nissan's Brazilian operations, François Dossa, on behalf of the athletes of Brazil The Nissan Leaf, the world's best-selling electric car, will be used to transport Brazilian athletes during the Games Other Brazilian models in the fleet include the Marcha, Ventra, Sentra and the Frontier pickup truck The fleet also includes 200 units of the official car of Rio 2016, the Nissan Kicks  Specifications of the compact SUV, which has been designed specially for the Brazilian market, include a 1 6 litre engine and 114bhp of horsepower  The vehicles are decorated with the official look of Rio 2016 (Photo: Rio 2016/Gabriel Nascimento) A team of about 750 volunteers will be responsible for driving the vehicles during the Games   "Four thousand people are working every day to deliver the Olympic Games in Rio," Sidney Levy, chief executive officer of the organising committee, said at the event To round off the ceremony in the sambódromo, home of the world's biggest party, dancers and drummers from the Acadêmicos do Salgueiro samba school celebrated the occasion with a classic Carnival show  The colourful performers of the Salgueiro samba school brought a carnival atmosphere to proceedings (Photo: Rio 2016/Gabriel Nascimento)