After rail chaos, some team officials struggle to reach Paris for Olympics

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Disruption to France's TGV high-speed train network was felt at the Olympic Village with a technical director for Team Germany saying that their officials may miss the opening men's volleyball match against Japan on Saturday (July 27).  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Some trains have started to resume operation on the three TGV high-speed railway lines

00:08targeted by saboteurs in France.

00:11The railway operator said repair works on the damaged facilities along the Atlantic,

00:16Northern and Eastern lines would take all day to complete.

00:21Saboteurs crippled the lines near Cordelais, another in Pagny-sur-Moselle, and the other

00:27in Croissilles.

00:57The fact is just that because of this issue we are not able to run the full schedule and

01:05now we have one train over three able to operate on the Atlantic coast.

01:11All the trains are operating normally but with roughly a one to two hour delay on the

01:17east of France and for the north of France some trains were cancelled but roughly the

01:23other trains are operating with one hour delay.

01:25So we have 30,000 kilometers of railway in France so it's a very large network.

01:32It's absolutely impossible to check all the points.

01:35What we are doing currently is some specific tour organized by experts on very targeted areas.

01:48The disrupted train services affected the travel plans of several participating nations

01:53in the Paris Olympic Games, including officials from the German contingent.

01:58Our team luckily is already in the Olympic village and everything is OK.

02:04But our board of administration, there are three people they wanted to join us today,

02:10especially because tomorrow at 9am competition for men's national team volleyball is starting.

02:17But now everything stands still and they are not sure if they arrive this evening.

02:25Tomorrow morning will be tough from Germany to take a train to be at 9 o'clock at our

02:30match so maybe they will miss the first match.

02:34Team officials said the railway traffic chaos may cause difficulties for fans to come to

02:40the Games, which started on Friday and will run until August 11th.

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