If athlete's foot wasn't bad enough ... There are many things that London would like to be remembered for as an Olympics host city. But itchy Olympians is not one of them. With just a year to go until the Games kick off, the Olympic park's landscape architects have been carefully considering the welfare of the athletes for a long time now - right down to the species of tree planted on the site. "There was one tree that we were considering using in the park that we had to abandon at the last minute," says my Olympic flora and fauna source. "We discovered that it harboured a particular type of caterpillar that can make people itch and we realised that this could be a disaster. The last thing we want is thousands of sportsmen and women scratching away at the height of the Games."
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