Olympic arrivals messed up on 1st day

US Beijing Olympics hurdling gold-medalist Kerron Clement embarrassed British officials who introduced the VIPs lane for a 45-minute journey from Heathrow Airport to the Games Village, tweeting his frustration that the team could not make it to the village after four hours.

Clement tweeted that they got lost on the way to Stratford where the Olympic Village is located after an over-night transatlantic flight from the US.

“Um, so we’ve been lost on the road for 4hrs. Not a good first impression London,” he tweeted before running out of patience and writing “could we get to the Olympic Village please.”

His tweet ran contrary to what the Games organizing committee LOCOG claimed to be a “completely successful” first day of arrivals.

“It is day one of team arrivals. We have successfully completed a large number of bus journeys so far today, from the airport, to the village and the training venues. Whilst there may have been one or two journeys taking longer than planned, the vast majority were completed successfully,” a spokesman said.

The US athletics team was not the only casualty of a 236,955-passenger rush to London on Monday as a media shuttle bus also got lost en route to Stratford.

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