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He had to go two miles and ended in only getting there ten minutes before his fight. That was a bit difficult for him.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Canadian team member.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Last night coming home from dinner I had to wait. Seven trams went by and they were all full. I must have been standing out there for half an hour, forty-five minutes. Either that or walk.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Bahamian team member.\u003cbr/\u003eAll around the city the story is the same: either gridlock, or very slow moving traffic.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think if the athletes are missing their venues without reason then I think it's disgraceful , but if their missing it because they don't know where they are going then it's their own fault. If you're going to an event you shouldn't really take a bus. Have your manager bring you or something like that.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Irish team member.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's been an embarrassing spectacle for the Atlanta Committee.\u003cbr/\u003eBut they put on a brave face as they met with the media after promises of a good commuting day that never surfaced.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's not unusual at the level of the summer games especially to have that kind of problem.  You have to realise that many people are coming in town - many kind of different people.  Basically the movement people are the same - the same time - so it's a huge machine to start.  And it is absolutely usual that in the first days of the Olympic games that we experienced some problems.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION: Michelle Verdier, IOC Director of Special Projects\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"One of the greatest, the great fear I guess that we have - is that an athlete will miss his competition or her competition because of our failure to provide timely transportation.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION:  Bob Brennan, ACOG Press Chief\u003cbr/\u003eTo add insult to injury for the athletes the computers have also been playing up. \u003cbr/\u003eIts yet another issue the Bob Brennan has had to apologise for.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Since yesterday , I firmly believed yesterday when I met with you that the information system would be up and operating and the results would be delivered in a timely way. That did not happen and I apologise.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Bob Brennan, ACOG Press Chief\u003cbr/\u003eThree time rowing gold medal winner Stephen Redgrave has gone so far as to move hotel because the situation has got so bad.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We won't get our morning outing to be prepared for our racing. So we were lucky enough to get some accommodation nearer to the lake, so , that's the main thing really.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Stephen Redgrave  - British rower\u003cbr/\u003eColleague Mathew Pincet is disappointed with the arrangements.\u003cbr/\u003e(Q) \"Are you unhappy with the way things the transportation has been arranged?\"\u003cbr/\u003e(A) \" I think we're disappointed that it wasn't as its been promised. When we accepted living in the village it was on the basis that the transport was going to take ,as Steve says, an hour to an hour and ten minutes. And the fact that its so variable and the problems seem so varied , one day its the driver gets lost , the next day its a different driver and he loses a creditation or he gets lost in a different part, maybe he gets lost here one day and he gets lost in  Atlanta the next.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Mathew Pincet  - British rower\u003cbr/\u003eAnd other athletes have become so angry with the appalling traffic conditions that they took the situation into their own hands.\u003cbr/\u003eThey had been waiting for approximately forty minutes for a bus despite officials saying that one would arrive in less than five.\u003cbr/\u003eSo they took action and formed a road block until one stopped for them.\u003cbr/\u003e\"There were a bus load of us there  - the Polish were there , the Ukraines were there the Danes were there and so we took charge of the situation and said OK , we're going to block the road and either you get us a bus otherwise we'll block the road. So we blocked the road and there were 25 buses all backed up , not none of them for the rowing and we just sort of said, we'll take the first one that comes along.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Allison Gill  - British rower\u003cbr/\u003eAtlanta, Georgia US, 21st and 22nd July 1996\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various: traffic jams and commuter troubles \u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: Canadian team member\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: Bahamian team member.\u003cbr/\u003e4. Traffic\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: Irish team member.\u003cbr/\u003e6. Traffic\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of presser\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: Verdier\u003cbr/\u003e9. Presser cutaway\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: Brennan\u003cbr/\u003e11. Woman working on Info '96 computer system\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close-up of computer screen\u003cbr/\u003e13. Brennan and Verdier\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: Brennan\u003cbr/\u003e15. Cutaway cameramen\u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE: Redgrave \u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: Pincet\u003cbr/\u003e18. Athletes getting on bus \u003cbr/\u003e19. Interior of bus and athletes \u003cbr/\u003e20. Set up shot Allison Gill  - British rower\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE: Allison Gill  - British rower\u003cbr/\u003e22. Bus driver \u003cbr/\u003e23. 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