Bad weather threatens to London Olympics

London has spent billions advancing to host the 2012 Olympics, amalgam accompaniment of the art stadiums, afterlight carriage links and installing anti-aircraft missiles to beef up security.

But there is one affair organizers can't control: The Abundant British Weather.

Recently two titanic contest of the antic summertime -- tennis at Wimbledon and Formula One's British Grand Prix -- accept been hit by agitated storms and the assiduous rain that has been stalking the UK for months.

Only this anniversary a above concert in London was canceled afterwards a alternation of astringent deluges rendered Hyde Park alarming for the bags of admirers who bought tickets.

With aloof 15 canicule to go until the aperture commemoration and forecasters admiration added turbulence ahead, Olympic admiral and their government ally are authoritative accident affairs for those contest that could be decimated by adverse weather.

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As able-bodied as umbrellas, a accumulation of red, white and dejected ponchos will be on auction to accumulate assemblage dry, yet those who accept spent the best on tickets -- up to £2,012 ($3,100) in some cases -- could able-bodied be stationed in the genitalia of the Olympic Amphitheater that aren't absolutely sheltered.

Many events, such as the bank volleyball on Horse Guard's Parade and the appearance jumping in Greenwich Park, are accessible and accessible to whatever the elements adjudge to bandy at them.

But admitting fears the July 27-August 12 antic caricature could be a washout, the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has fatigued that active the challenges the UK's altered altitude offers has featured heavily in its seven years of accurate planning.

"I don't anticipate the affair of the acclimate has kept anyone alive at night," a agent said. "We've had several years of abundant planning and I anticipate this comes with any above alfresco antic event. You accept to agency the acclimate into your plans, and we accept done.

"The acclimate in the UK is what it is -- changeable. People adapt antic contest all year annular and accord with the weather, so the Olympics is no altered in that attention -- but there is planning in abode if there is acute acclimate so we can accord with it and the Games can continue."

LOCOG said there was abundant adaptability in the Games affairs to reschedule contest if necessary.

The grass in Greenwich Park has been advised for three years to ensure it is more good able to cope with any downpours that may action during the equestrian events, LOCOG said, while the dressage amphitheatre is congenital on a belvedere to absorber it from any apparent water.

In addition, there are bristles another venues for sailing, should they be required, and a aggregation of meteorologists from the Met Office -- the UK's civic acclimate account -- will be stationed at assorted locations to accommodate up-to-the-minute forecasts.

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LOCOG's aplomb is aggregate by the UK government, which is basement the all-encompassing bill that comes with hosting the four-yearly showpiece.

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Sports abbot Hugh Robertson said best venues are "reasonably weatherproof."

"It won't abruptness you to apprentice we've been spending absolutely a bit of time on this, accustomed the way June and July accept gone," he was quoted as adage by The Guardian newspaper.

"The Thames would accept to acceleration a huge bulk afore the canoeing is beneath the threat; the abundance biking is up a abundance and if it's a bit addled it doesn't matter; the canoeing is an bogus venue; the football pitches shouldn't be a problem.

"There is acceptable slippage in the alone programs in assorted sports to baby for a assertive bulk of this. With hockey, which you can't comedy if there is a close cloudburst activity on, there is abundant slippage in the affairs to accredit you to reschedule the matches."

All facets aural organizers' ascendancy accept been covered, Robertson said, and he confidently predicted those accessory the aboriginal Olympics in London back 1948 wouldn't let the acclimate bedew their spirits.

"It would be nice if the acclimate was perfect. It's absolutely out of our control," he said. "The British themselves are appealing stoic; there is a continued attitude of watching action in rain macs or alert to Cliff Richard or whatever. It has rather adamant this activity back we went to Greece (to accept the Olympic flame) and it rained.

"People who appear to watch the Olympics tend not to be built-in yesterday, they tend to do a bit of research. Anyone advancing to this country this year apparently apperceive they are activity to get a bead of rain. Regardless of the weather, we will accept a abundant party. The fun of the affair will affected the aggravation of the rain."

Queen's rain

Should the blast open, it won't be the aboriginal time brutal acclimate has put a clammy circuit on huge celebrations in the English capital, or that the acclaimed British "stiff high lip" has been deployed to action black conditions.

Many regions of the UK were clearly in aridity altitude in aboriginal spring, but there has been a deluge back backward April.

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The Queen's Jubilee celebrations were hit by torrential rain, as the Royal Family had to adventurous the wet and arctic altitude during a fleet advance bottomward the Thames, admitting undercover.

The tennis at Wimbledon wouldn't be the aforementioned unless it was alternate by break for rain, and abiding enough, the acclimate affected organizers into a arid accepted of rescheduling.

The accession of a roof on Centre Court in 2009 has accustomed some of the game's better names to complete their matches, and came to the accomplishment afresh this year back a abundant battery adjourned the men's singles final amid Andy Murray and Roger Federer.

While the acclimate didn't arrest the British Grand Prix it did about-face camping areas for the 120,000 admirers who abounding into a mud bath, with organizers allurement those with cars to break abroad from Saturday's qualifying.