The wave of riots and civil unrest sweeping the UK has invited the leaders of the Games in search of greater security measures before the Games next summer in London.
After the fatal shooting by police of a man in north London suburb of Tottenham, last Thursday was a crime wave is spreading to the rest of the capital and other major cities, with shops looted, cars burnt people fought and houses looted.
Vandals left graffiti on a countdown to the Olympic Trafalgar Square.
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The shocking scenes led to a drastic rethink Olympic police, with one source revealing Yahoo Sports that representatives of the Games organizing committee LOCOG will meet with police, when the current carnage subsides.
The original plans I've seen cops Aroud 9000 through the streets of London during the Olympic Games can be discarded, and the numbers of about 16,000 admitted to the emergency measures this week are now likely.
Olympic schedule and budget without a hitch, but the violence spread to the London Borough of Hackney, just a few blocks away from the center of the city, the games, has increased the concern and uncertainty of less than 12 months of lighting the flame.
London has never experienced the chaotic scenes of this kind, at any time in recent history, with the most disturbing is how the controversy spread so quickly and brutally. Just a few months of joyous celebration to mark the wedding of Prince William and his new wife the Duchess of Cambridge, through the history of one of the proudest cities of the world were crushed under the eyes of its citizens.
[Photos: Battle of London Police rioters]
Horror stories of this article to a real break in the company were entertained: passers-by about undressing, while the clothes stolen by thugs, the victim of a beating from being stolen by the perpetrators to those who believe that helped him up. After the prime minister, David Cameron returned early vacation to Italy by the police on the streets, details emerged showing that a school employee, a driver and an 11-year-old were among those detained for looting.
Normally the sport is the last thing on most minds at times like this. But that's how they were affected in this nation obsessed with sports that really brought home the magnitude of the crisis.
The English football team suffered its international stand against the Netherlands at Wembley Stadium Wednesday canceled as a direct result of the riots, while the team has launched a mass appeal for calm. With the English Premier League season should start on Saturday, there is a huge cloud of uncertainty hanging over the games of the weekend opening. Three matches are scheduled for London, EPL, Tottenham with a capital-based club, Fulham and Queens Park Rangers (QPR) no reason to play at home.
Conversations with the police will continue and a decision on most fights are expected Thursday. "We are in discussions with our clubs, based in London [and] ... Metropolitan Police with regard to fighting the weekend to come, "said a joint statement of the EPA and the Football League, which governs the three divisions below.
Tottenham White Hart Lane Stadium is less than a mile away from where the riots began early on Saturday, two days after Mark Duggan, a local man was killed, and the ticket has been damaged as a result of the uproar. Of all the EPL games, is incompatible with Tottenham Everton who are most likely called off, and even the players of your team are invited to a postponement.
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"It would be better to postpone the match for safety reasons to the fans," said the Tottenham defender Younes Kaboul.
"The chaos Currently, there are incredible," said midfielder Rafael Van der Vaart.
After a night of unrest, hangs a poster at Wembley Stadium in England, Holland vs indicating that the game was canceled.
However, this position is not shared by all. Bernie Ecclestone, head of Formula One Motorsport co-owner of QPR, he insisted that the closure of football, even temporarily, meaning that the infidels had won.
"It would send a terrible message to the world," said Ecclestone. "Can you imagine if it happened at the Olympics began. It would be terrible."
Several major figures in British sport spoke up and called for normalcy to be restored. Midfielder Steven Gerrard, who issued a statement message for no violence in his hometown of Liverpool, who have fought hard to rise above the social problems of recent years.
"What does all this help you?" England football captain Rio Ferdinand wrote on Twitter, while suggesting that the army might be a way to control the violence. "Innocent people homes and livelihoods have gone up in smoke. Why?"
Problem also occurred in other major cities, although the England cricket international against India in Birmingham was allowed to take place.
More caution was needed in London, however, some of them with an Olympic theme in itself. A tournament before the Olympics in beach volleyball at Horse Guards Parade milestone was reached at the beginning of what fans can return home more safely. There is also a bike race pre-Olympic to be held in the streets of London this weekend, it seems almost certain to be canceled.
The IOC reinforced its confidence in the British police, but there is no doubt that LOCOG will have to act quickly to reassure more.
However, the hard part may be a balance between the need for strong security, while preventing an open and intrusive measures as the world comes to vsit. If, in fact, come to visit.
While Paula Radcliffe's marathon world record holder told the Daily Mail: "In less than a year, we welcome the world, and now they do not want to come."
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