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[Michelle]

lol Floods in summer, Welcome to Great Britain =)

Its to be nice here all week, Ive been informed. Which puts a smile on my face, to bad Ill be working most of it.

[arwebb]

Oh typical. Weather turning now. Joyous.

[baron-pierreIV]

jayezz, on Jul 10 2007, 08:55 PM, said:

I have also learnt, that HOK & Peter cook, the designer of the Olympic Stadium are thinking of have NO ROOF, only partly covered, over the VIP area. Surely, this cant be true? The stadium will look bare....and what happens if it rains?

It's not going to be the first time rain will fall on a Summer Olympics. For the record, it rained in Rome, Tokyo (the think the worst recorded rainfall for a postwar Olympics. The 2009 voters should remember that.) Atlanta and Sydney. Besides, what sort of British Games would it be w/o some rain and the umbrellas? It's not like athletes and audiences will melt away? Trivial matter.

[RobH]

Organizers of the 2012 London Olympics have agreed to a designers' recommendation that seats in the new 20,000-seat Aquatic Center should be four centimeters wider and five centimeters deeper than originally planned, the British tabloid the Sun reported.

The reason: increasing girth. The total population of the United Kingdom is less than 61 million, yet the number who are, by definition, obese, is expected to reach 27.6 million by 2010.

Among the reaction posted by British readers online:

"EXPECTING A LOT OF AMERICAN TOURISTS."

[baron-pierreIV]

Rob, on Sep 13 2007, 01:18 PM, said:

"EXPECTING A LOT OF AMERICAN TOURISTS."

Except that the American crowds that attend an Olympics are generally leaner. More often than not, they are families/friends/suporters of Olympic athletes, therefore generally lead the same healtheir, leaner, lifestyles (than the NFL couch potato-types) of the participants they have followed to support. The bigger, fatter, more obese Americans KNOW they cannot negotiate all those ramps and stairs of the big stadia.

[Jim856796]

Will the London Aquatics Centre be reduced to 2,500 or 3,500 capacity? and I heard that the preliminary Water Polo matches will be held at a temporary pool in the University of East London's Docklands campus.

[Guardian]

I hope that the London organizers are not going to "jazz up" the aquatics venue for 2012. Why I say that is because the CBC just finished covering the World Short Course Championships in Manchester and the organizers decked that venue like the swimmers were rock stars. Imagine this: spinning dance hall globes on the ceiling, swimmers coming out ONE BY ONE through automatic doors while the venue is darkened and so forth. On top of that, after finishing a race, the winner gets the complete spotlight while the venue gets complete dark AGAIN!

[arwebb]

Rob, on Sep 13 2007, 02:18 PM, said:

Organizers of the 2012 London Olympics have agreed to a designers' recommendation that seats in the new 20,000-seat Aquatic Center should be four centimeters wider and five centimeters deeper than originally planned, the British tabloid the Sun reported.

The reason: increasing girth. The total population of the United Kingdom is less than 61 million, yet the number who are, by definition, obese, is expected to reach 27.6 million by 2010.

Among the reaction posted by British readers online:

"EXPECTING A LOT OF AMERICAN TOURISTS."

No bad thing. It drives me potty, as a man of six foot three and slightly more girth than I'd like to go to a sporting venue and sometimes have to sit with my legs almost at 90 degrees to my body. Spectator comfort is important.