The organizers of next year's Olympics have drawn up contingency plans to deal with possible bad weather during the event, an official said this week.

Yang Shu'an, executive vice-president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG), said at a press conference on Wednesday: "We have already developed a scheme to cope with various weather conditions during the Games."

At least six additional observation points have been set up around the Olympic Green, where a cluster of venues are located, and other Olympic-related sites for weather surveillance, Yang said.