Three buses carrying athletes, officials, and journalists from London’s Heathrow Airport to the Olympic Village on Monday, taking more than four hours to make the normally 45-minute trip. 鈥淯m, so we鈥檝e been lost on the road for 4hrs,鈥 tweeted American hurdler Kerron Clement. 鈥淣ot a good first impression London.鈥 Thousands of athletes arrived at Heathrow yesterday, making it the busiest day in the airport鈥檚 80-year history. Pre-Olympics infrastructure concerns鈥攂ack-up at Heathrow, construction traffic on the M4, London鈥檚 major highway鈥攚ere non-issues. The buses moved smoothly, just not in the right direction, as drivers struggled with the GPS-equipped buses. 鈥淚 understand that some of our visitors took the scenic route,鈥 said the less-than-worried London mayor, Boris Johnson. 鈥淭hey saw more of our fantastic city than they would otherwise have done. And that鈥檚 no bad thing.鈥
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