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And so it begins. The Olympics officially kicks off at the end of next week, but all the athletes, trainers and oodles of support staff for every nation have to actually get here first. The initial few are arriving, and let’s just say they’re not all that chuffed with the transport situation we’ve got set up here in London.
US double 400m hurdles world champion, Kerron Clement, spent four hours with his team lost on a bus in London, attempting to get from Heathrow to the Olympic village. As you can imagine, he wasn’t best pleased:
“Um, so we’ve been lost on the road for 4hrs. Not a good first impression London.
Athletes are sleepy, hungry and need to pee. Could we get to the Olympic Village please.”
Ouch, I can just imagine the kind of frustration they were feeling — it’s almost as if the mockumentary Twenty Twelve is actually coming true. Lord knows how long they spent in passport control to boot. [Twitter via Metro]
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How do you get lost going from London’s biggest airport to East London? The mind boggles.
I take it none of them have learnt to use Google Maps yet then.
It is not exactly brain surgery getting from Heathrow to the Olympic village. Two choices – straight through the middle of London. However usually when I do that trip anti-clockwise around the M25 – get off at the A12 which takes you to withing a few minutes of the Olympic Village.
surely getting lost was the bus driver’s fault?
im no big fan of the olympics (big waste of cash) but how is it to blame?
Yes it’s unclear (to me at least) if the bus driver works for LOCOG or for the US team. If the former, then yes, you have cause for complaint. If the latter then the poor guy was probably confused by being on the wrong side of the road (from his perspective) and being able to go faster than 56 miles an hour.
faster than 56 miles an hour – in london?
the only way you can get that fast in london is if you fall off the Shard
i agree, we need to know who the driver is with.
You can go faster than 56MPH on the M25 (sometimes)
Yea, not too sure it’s London’s fault that you got lost for 4hours. You just have an idiot for a bus driver.
Some yanks do love making stupid comments about anything British though, as if to make them sound superior. (in my experience, of which I have lots of)
Surely this was a LOCOG driver going on strike early?
American’s don’t need to make themselves sound superior – they simply are…
Type first ask questions later ay? Good work.
I thought athletes weren’t allowed to tweet, anyway?
AWWWW BOOO HOOO Mr Hurdler. you will soon be realising not everyone in london gives a crap about the olympics. although, maybe that’s why he wants to get to the olympic village so quick. i’ve heard they’ve got an awesome mcdonalds in there. oh, I didn’t do good at jumping and running cause i drank too much coca cola after my big mac. seriously though dude, i totally feel for you, four hours is sooooooo long to get ‘stuck’ on a coach, i would start missing my mummy and i might even get bored of the interenets or all my games on my phone or all the books on my kindle and of talking to all the people on the bus on the way to the greatest sporting event of the entire world that only comes round every 4 years and that i’ve been training my entire life to enter.
Maybe the driver took a wrong turn and is currently caught up in the 32 mile queue on the M4?
Oh no – sorry that’s us British folk who are stuck when the motorways go down to one lane so the athletes can have priority access.
Grrrrrrrr.
Only it seems athletes don’t get access as well.
In other news, the M25 is to be rearranged to present the outline of the Trollface when viewed from space.
The M25 should be rearranged to present the outline of the Trollface when viewed from space. That would be kickass.
Lost??? Has no one told their coach driver about GPS navigation.
well they will be even more peed off when they see the rooms there staying in lol yes outside looks nice inside crappy plain square beige box with a bed lol
I blame O2.
Try manning the gate on a twelve hour shift! Yawn mrs athlete! Do I look like I give a f@ck?