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THOUSAND OAKS Calif A potentially explosive news conference with an alleged mistress was canceled and more details trickled out about the car accident that started all the trouble for Tiger Woods The news conference in Los Angeles for Rachel Uchitel the woman who denied a tabloid report about an affair with Woods was canceled about an hour before it was to begin Thursday attorney Gloria Allred who was to make a statement about Uchitels with golfs No 1 player said it was called off because of unforeseen Allred said she would have no further comment For the first time since last Friday when Woods ran his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree outside his Florida home there were no news conferences involving police nor any statements from Woods on his Web site His last one was Wednesday when he issued a statement conceding that he had let my family down That followed a report in UsWeekly magazine of a cocktail waitress claiming to have had a 31month affair with Woods The Associated Press obtained an audio recording of an interview the Florida Highway Patrol conducted with Woods neighbors after the accident Troopers interviewed Jarius Adam who called 911 and his sister Kimberly Harris Harris told troopers that Woods mother Kultida and Barbro Holmberg were at the scene but the AP could not confirm that A voice that strongly resembles Woods mother is heard in the background during the 911 call saying loudly What happened A spokeswoman for Holmberg mother of Elin Nordegren didnt know if she was in Florida when the accident happened I dont know for sure but I dont think so spokeswoman Ewa Malmborg said I have not been informed about that She was here again working on Monday again anyway In the FHP interview a trooper asked Harris about the women and if they talkedto anyone at the scene The cops came the Windermere cops came first then the security guards came Harris said And then it appears Mr Woods mom and Tigers wifes mom came out after the fact I dont know if they heard the commotion I dont if she his wife left and came back But they walked across the grass and were outside as well Woods peers meanwhile went from talking about him to playing in his 575 million golf tournament He previously pulled out of the Chevron World Challenge at Sherwood Country Club an 18player event that pays 135 million to the winner spent most of the week taking questions on their sports biggest star most offering support and curious about details and some of the More criticism came from Jesper Parnevik of Sweden who once employed Woods wife as a nanny and told reporters Wednesday that he owed her an apology for introducing them I have lost all respect for as a man and a father Parnevik said in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet on Thursday from the PGA Tour qualifying tournament in West Palm Beach Fla It doesnt even feel like it matters what he has done on the golf course My respect for him as a person is gone We have been nice to Tiger before but now he only has himself to blame We thought better of him but he is not the one we thought he was Among star athletes Woods considers a close friend is Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers They had dinner in Orlando Fla during the NBA finals this year When he heard the word Tiger in a question Wednesday Bryant said Man get off that I knew there was going to be one and he ended the interview The crowd was smaller than usual at Sherwood where Woods isnt playing for the second straight year He was recovering from knee surgery in 2008 although he was still on the property Players one być peppered z pytania podczas przybycia ale przez czwartek został ponownie do birdies i bogeys WE havent czym o nim Zach Johnson powiedział IT hasnt jeszcze myśli AP specjalną Deutsch Linda w Los Angeles AP Sports Writers Greg Beacham w Los Angeles i Antonio Gonz