Michelle Obama keynotes 100-days to Rio Games NYC party

By Larry Fine NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Michelle Obama launched a 100-days from the Rio Olympics street party on Wednesday featuring more than 75 Olympians in an interactive carnival on two blocks of teeming Times Square. Obama, who developed the Let's Move program to address the problem of child obesity, hailed the U.S. Olympians as role models and joined in demonstrations of basketball and fencing in the slender island that runs between Broadway and 7th Avenue. "One of the reasons I wanted to be here today to kick this off, to be a part of the 100-day celebration, is that we're not just talking about bringing home the gold," Obama, wearing a U.S. track suit, said in a keynote to the six-hour event.

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