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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Once the self-styled Olympic family started grumbling, Rio de Janeiro organizers knew they had to make rapid improvements.You need to provide good service, Rio Games spokesman Mario Andrada said Tuesday. And we were kind of dropping the ball a little bit in the beginning.International Olympic Committee executives and guests didnt like being made to wait around for transportation. Even a minute.Some routes were not very well organized, Andrada said. They stay in a Brazil for a short period of time. They want to go wherever they need to go quickly.Out went the volunteers, many of whom werent turning up; in came more professional, paid drivers to ferry Olympic figures around Rio. And the transport complaints largely stopped, at least among non-journalists.Its not hard to find people complaining at these financially and logistically troubled Olympics.Television stations paying fortunes to air sporting actions want full stadiums as the backdrop. Swathes of empty seats tell a different story, reflecting apathy amid high costs of tickets by local standards.With five days remaining of the games, organizers are still talking about it being a learning curve getting Brazilians to fall in love with the Olympics.When you have a full venue you are offering a better product to broadcasters and to fans far away, Andrada said. So we need to work in that direction. I think its on the priority list.We discuss this and work on this every single day. We are making progress and as we approach the final more seats will be filled ... because we know we need to offer a better product, a better view for the broadcasters.Even when the fans turn up, their conduct isnt to the liking of organizers or some competitors.As Renaud Lavillenie was deposed as Olympic champion by home favorite Thiago Braz da Silva, the French pole vaulter was booed on Monday. If you get no respect in the Olympics, where can you get respect? Lavillenie complained.In many ways it should not be done that way; in many ways its understandable, Andrada responded at the organizers daily media briefing. The public couldnt believe a gold medal is in sight (for Braz da Silva). They reacted in a very ordinary and normal way from some perspective but we cannot afford (that) an athlete feels booing interferes with his or her performance.There were also updates on other issues to beset the games:- All the people injured when an elevated television camera plummeted more than 60 feet to the ground Monday in the Olympic park have been released from hospital.- Signs and backdrops at the mountain bike course are being replaced after being damaged by a brush fire.- Rio de Janeiro police are investigating a Bulgarian athlete who was accused of beating up housekeepers at the Olympic Village. 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Rugby league star Semi Radradra has been charged with three counts domestic violence.NSW Police took the Parramatta Eels star into custody when he arrived at Sydney Airport from Fiji on Thursday night to be questioned over allegations from his former partner that assaulted her.Radradra will appear in Parramatta Local Court next Tuesday.The winger returned to Australia to face battles on various fronts, his former partner having sought an apprehended violence order against him following allegations of multiple assaults.There was also confusion about his playing future with reports the flyer was seeking a release from his NRL contract to play in France and may be considering a switch to rugby union.No Parramatta official was spotted.Former Eels teammate Jarryd Hayne, who was also on the flight from Nadi, was left to do the talkingg.ddddddddddddHe said Radradra told him he was returning to play for Parramatta and described him as the Eels marquee player.Im more worried about the person himself than the athlete, I think thats the most important thing, Hayne said.Asked about how Radradra had reacted to the developments of the last 48 hours when details of the AVO became public knowledge, Hayne said: It has been a bit of mayhem by all reports but I think the biggest advice I gave to him is hes got to run a tight ship.Haynes said it was just a coincidence that the pair were on the same flight.Radradra had been expected to train with Parramatta on Friday morning and play against Cronulla on Saturday prior to be detained by police. 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