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RIO DE JANEIRO -- With the Rio de Janeiro Olympics set to open, worried IOC members grilled top organizing officials about traffic jams, water pollution, security, and the absence of signage that gives the games its own distinct look.International Olympic President Thomas Bach also turned up the pressure Wednesday by talking straight to organizing committee president Carlos Nuzman and CEO Sidney Levy, who tried to soothe almost 100 IOC members.Its delivery time, Bach said. Here we go now. It really starts. We are very confident we will celebrate great games here in Rio and the world will be surprised to see what will happen here.Bach also cautioned: All praise is premature now. ... Its too early to celebrate.Prince Albert of Monaco asked about Rios severe water pollution, which soils Olympic venues for sailing, rowing, canoeing, triathlon and open-water swimming. Rio treats about half of its raw sewage, dumping the rest into the waters surrounding the area of 12 million people.The media has said a lot about the preparations of these games, and they say a lot about the levels of pollution, Albert said. How worried should we be?Rio spokesman Mario Andrada repeated assurances that bacterial pollution levels fall within World Health Organization guidelines. However, organizers have been criticized for the astronomical viral levels in the waters, and for not testing for this kind of pollution.Then theres surface debris.We do have a few problems with the floating garbage, Andrada acknowledged, explaining plans to use a dozen garbage collection boats in the sailing venue. Rio is also using barricades to block the flow of garbage from streams, and helicopters to spot garbage flows.Swiss IOC member Denis Oswald asked about traffic jams in the run-up to the games, which open Friday.Those whove had the opportunity to get to some of the venues have had lots of difficulties, Oswald said.Rio official Leo Gryner said there were some constraints getting the Olympic lane system to work. The lanes are to help get athletes and officials around town quickly. He said city officials were making changes.They are making the flow quicker and making sure all the athletes get to training and competition on time, Gyrner said.Rio commercial officer Renato Ciuchini was asked why there was so little signage -- signs that give the games it distinct look and help direct fans to venues. It was suggested the number installed only reached 15 percent.We are very confident the supplier will now install everything, but I believe a few will be installed a bit late, Ciuchini said. IOC officials said Christophe Dubi, the Olympic Games executive director, was holding an emergency meeting with the supplier.IOC member Alex Gilady asked Levy about his three largest worries. Levy listed transportation, security -- despite a force of 85,000 police and soldiers -- and finances.He said transportation was going well between the two largest venue clusters -- the Olympic Park and the northern cluster of Deodoro. He said that comprised 75 percent of the trips. The problem area was in urban Rio around Copacabana Beach and the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon where rowing takes place.Its a real challenge, Levy said.He also acknowledged the operating budget is under stress. That is a budget of 7.4 billion reals ($2.3 billion) for operating the games themselves, but not for building venues and roads.Rio organizers have been getting cash advances from the IOC but still maintain their budget is balanced. 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Because, every day I either have batting or wicket-keeping [drills before play]. Thats the system in every match.That, however, didnt stop Pant from creaming Jharkhands bowlers for 135 in 67 balls, with 78 runs coming in sixes. Pant was surprised to learn his 21 sixes in the match was the second-most in a first-class game. Bas lag raha tha ki yaar ache se khelna padega, aise kya gande tareeke se khelta hai (I felt I wasnt batting properly and that I had to play better, thats all). I had got an opportunity to bat again; that hasnt happened in the most of our matches, Pant, who has batted in only seven innings from five games, says.Jharkhand left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem, who is Pants Delhi Daredevils team-mate in the IPL, was at the receiving end of some unbelievable strokes. There was some rough and we were trying to land there, but he would step out andd easily hit sixes off even those deliveries that were out of his reach, Nadeem says.dddddddddddd In the first innings, he was batting on 99, and when Sunny Gupta, the offspinner, was bowling, he hit him against the spin over midwicket. That was a pretty huge six.According to Nadeem, bowling to Pant was particularly difficult given how flat the pitch was. There are the Virender Sehwag-types who believe in their strokes right from the start rather than taking singles. Pant belongs to that category, he says. There were fielders on the boundary line, but he was still clearing them easily.For his part, Pant said when the shot is timed well, it doesnt matter if the ground is small or big. Coach KP Bhaskar had called for better shot-selection from Pant after Delhis 160-run loss to Karnataka, but according to Pant, Bhaskar has asked him to back his natural game. He believes playing his natural game and batting responsibly arent mutually exclusive. When you express yourself, it doesnt mean you are not playing responsibly, he said. People generally think that when someone plays attacking cricket, he doesnt bat responsibly. But, if you dont play responsibly, there is only one outcome: you get out.Does Pant think he could have scored the hundred in fewer deliveries? Of course. I had reached 96 in around 42 or 43 deliveries. But then, they were bowling outside off, and I couldnt force myself to go after those deliveries, he says, and throws in another punchline for good measure: Cricket mein kuch bhi sakta hai, sochne waali koi baat hi nahin hai. Aaj maine [record] banaya, kal koi aur karega (Anything can happen in cricket. I created a record today, someone else will do it tomorrow). ' ' '