| Salt Lake City |
 |
 |
| GER |
12 |
16 |
7 |
35 |
 |
| USA |
10 |
13 |
11 |
34 |
|
| NOR |
11 |
7 |
6 |
24 |
|
| CAN |
6 |
3 |
8 |
17 |
|
| RUS |
6 |
6 |
4 |
16 |
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| AUT |
2 |
4 |
10 |
16 |
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| ITA |
4 |
4 |
4 |
12 |
|
| FRA |
4 |
5 |
2 |
11 |
|
| SUI |
3 |
2 |
6 |
11 |
|
| NED |
3 |
5 |
0 |
8 |
|
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Olympic buses
Keith McCord
KSL-TV
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  Keith McCord reports
To provide transportation to the venues and to and from the numerous Park & Ride lots, SLOC called in buses from all over the country. Keith McCord has been riding them and has this report.
Would you believe 700 buses from 46 states are here? Plus 29 light rail cars from Dallas!
Yep, getting people from point A to point B is a big process.
They're here from all over — buses and drivers, working their magic to move millions of spectators..
From Atlanta, Pasadena, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.
Every day at the UTA headquarters, dozens of drivers line up to get their route assignments. 11-hundred drivers and mechanics are here, many for the first time.
Bill Coleman of Ontario, California says, "It's not difficult. At first I had to get used to the grid system. After I got it down pat, it's okay."
Each day the buses line up at the venues and at the Park and Ride lots, ready to move people back and forth. Most of the out of state drivers work for companies like UTA, and signed up for the Olympics as far back as a year ago.
Sending buses and drivers to other cities to help out is not new for the Olympics. UTA sent 25 of our buses to Atlanta in 1996.
For the drivers, it's a lot of work — 10-hour days at times — but it's a nice change.
George Freeleym of Chicago told us, "First time here, I got to see a lot of scenery and everything. It couldn't have been better."
The state which sent the most buses is California. Buses are here from 16 cities in that state!
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February 21, 2002
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