[1]The men's Olympics 100 metres final on Sunday which is likely to feature a duel between Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake could be run in rain if showers heading London's way arrive early, forecasters say.
The showpiece event of the 2012 Olympic Games, set for 9:50pm (2050 GMT), should just escape the worst of the downpours but the risk of showers remains, the Met Office national weather service said on Saturday.
"We're looking at a day with sunny spells across London through Sunday but there is the chance of showers turning up and that chance increases as we go through the evening," Met Office forecaster Helen Chivers told AFP.
"The timing is critical; at the moment it looks as though the showers will turn up after 9:50pm... and the 10 seconds after it," she joked.
"So whilst there is a risk of showers developing across the London area during Sunday evening, it looks as though they will turn up slightly later than 10:00pm.
"It may well be that when people are leaving the stadium and going home they may well have turned up by then so it's going to be quite close."
The temperature should be around 18 degrees Celsius (64 degrees Fahrenheit) with light winds.
Reigning Olympic champion Bolt and his Jamaican training partner Blake were due to run in the first round of the 100m on Saturday.
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