With just hours to go before the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, France's high speed rail network has been hit by so-called 'acts of sabotage'. Some customers have been left unable to make the journey across the Channel due to the disruption, with others severely delayed. The London to Paris operator, Eurostar, has warned a quarter of services will be cancelled over the weekend - with many others diverted. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00It appears that, like every other train moving forward through the rest of the day, is cancelled.
00:04They're trying to accommodate everyone that was kind of disenfranchised by the earlier
00:10cancellations, so it's really limiting availability for those of us that were on the cancelled
00:15trains.
00:16We're missing out on the opening ceremonies, we're missing out on the USA Women's water
00:20polo game, and a couple other Olympic games that we have tickets to, but we'll be happy
00:26to get there tomorrow, so it's okay.
00:27All my friends are messaging me and they're like, are you sure you're going to Paris today?
00:32And the train before me is cancelled, the trains after me is cancelled, but it says
00:36I'm still en route, so I'm looking like it's about an hour delay.
00:40I wasn't feeling very secure to go back today, but I have no choice because I have my work
00:45tomorrow so I have to go now, but I'm a bit afraid because it's not sure.
00:51And I think this time the Olympics will start in one hour, so I don't feel safe, but I have
00:56no choice.
00:58I think ours is late enough where it's just going to be disrupted and not cancelled, so
01:02hopefully everything's going to be alright.
01:04I think it should just take longer than normal.