Arrrgh: It’s a bad news day for London’s Olympics

With the Olympics just two weeks away, embarrassing logisticalproblems about security, staff, phones and traffic made the moodThursday in London as gloomy as the weather.British lawmakers clamored for an explanation of why the armedforces need to field more troops to protect the games, eclipsingthe day that U.S. track star Michael Johnson held the Olympic flamealoft at sunrise at the ancient monument at Stonehenge.London’s aging infrastructure kept offering up unpleasantsurprises as the main road near Heathrow Airport remained closedfollowing emergency repairs. The British mobile phone company O2,meanwhile, acknowledged that thousands of customers had beenaffected by outages on its network – a bad omen ahead of the firstiPhone games.And then there was the weather. Rain on and off and onagain.London’s Hyde Park – the site of outdoor concerts and other liveevents – has trucked in piles of wood chips to cover a muddyquagmire after the wettest June on record. Someone apparentlydecided that recreating Woodstock wasn’t very Olympic-friendly.Here’s a look at the tsunami of bad news.BRING ON THE TROOPSBritish Home Secretary Theresa May confirmed that the governmentwill deploy an additional 3,500 servicemen at the London Olympicsamid concerns that a private security contractor had failed torecruit enough staff. The firm G4S had been enlisted… Read full this story

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