LONDON - With the Olympics just two weeks away, embarrassing logistical problems made the mood Thursday in London as gloomy as the weather.
Here's a look at the tsunami of bad news:
Welcome to Britain: The line forms here
The British media has been full of bad news lately about the long line at passport control while entering the island nation.
Those lines have been blamed on everything from airline schedules to too much wind, but everyone is looking for a way to bring the wait down.
Will you be able to get there from here?
London's aging transport network continued to befuddle planners who have been working to get the city spruced up for the games and for the hundreds of thousands of tourists expected.
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The main road linking Heathrow to London and Olympic Park remained closed, but the big question mark remains as to whether the entire London transport infrastructure can handle the strain.
So much for the iPhone Olympics
Perhaps the scariest news has been a mobile phone outage.
British mobile phone company O2 restored its 2G and 3G services after a breakdown that hit some customers for as long as 24 hours.
That's not a good omen for the vast amounts of tweets and photos expected to be sent. Those responsible for London's fiber optic cables, phone masts and wi-fi hotspots are bracing for a tsunami of data.
And the rain is a pain
The gloomy weather has the entire nation wondering if it will ever get sunny for longer than 15 minutes. The Met Office, Britain's national forecaster, has insisted that the wet start to July does not necessarily mean that it will rain during the Olympics, from July 27 to Aug. 12.
"We could have some nice days," Met spokesman Dan Williams said.
