Olympic organizers prepare emergency plan for marathon in bad weather
1/8/2008 17:56
A Beijing Olympics official said today that there will be an emergency
plan for marathon if the last event is affected by adverse weather.
"We have
put into consideration the possibility that the marathon event may encounter
poor weather and have worked out an emergency plan accordingly," Liu Wenbin,
deputy director of the Sports Department of the Beijing Organizing Committee for
the 29th Olympic Games (BOCOG), said at a press conference.
He did not
elaborate the emergency plan, but said, "One thing is certain, all the sports
events shall be finished before the Game's closing ceremony."
Marathon is the
last competition at the Beijing Olympic Games to be started on the morning of
Aug. 24, according to the schedule.
The possibility that the sports event
schedule has to be changed for pollution reason is very small and Beijing's air
quality will not affect athletes' health, Liu cited two officials of the
International Olympic Committee as saying.
Xinhua
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