BEIJING, China, August 17. ACCORDING to a report by the Xinhua News Agency, organizers of the 2008 Beijing Olympics have been warned that some Olympic venues are prone to lightning attacks.
According to the article:
"In an academic paper submitted Thursday to the ongoing 13th International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity, Guo Hu, head of the Beijing Meteorological Observatory (BMO), and his fellow researcher Xiong Yajun concluded, after studying the 11-year lightning disaster data from 1995 to 2005, that Haidian District was the area most seriously affected by lightning disasters."
The Haiden District happens to be where "most of the 31 Beijing Olympic venues are located."
This is just the latest tidbit coming from Beijing as the sporting world begins to re-focus on another location to culminate the quadrennium. With talks of China trying to alter the weather via rain seeding to enhance optimum conditions during the event as well as taking stringent measures to guarantee food quality, news should continue to stream in from the country as it prepares to host the Olympics in 2008.