Britain's weather runs the traditional gamut Wednesday, offering challenges for many Olympic sports on tap.

Gusty winds are always fun for tennis and archery. The Met Office, Britain's weather service, says: "Bands of showery rain moving from west to east" will plague beach volleyball, cycling time trials and all six soccer stadiums. Some areas around London might even see "sunnier spells."

Still, the outlook for Thursday, Friday and Saturday looks worse, with "sunny spells but also heavy and thundery showers."

As we said, the gamut.

— Sheila Norman-Culp — Twitter http://twitter.com/snormanculp

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