Climate change group Just Stop Oil disrupted the second Ashes check at Lord’s, the Gallagher Premiership rugby closing at Twickenham and the World Snooker Championship between April and July.
The AELTC is “confident” within the measures it has taken to enhance safety and is “ready” to take care of a protest ought to one occur.
AELTC chief government Sally Bolton advised reporters: “Of course we’ve taken account of what we’ve seen elsewhere, so security has been uplifted in various places around the grounds.”
She added: “We are really confident in the measures that we’ve taken but I think, as we’ve seen at other sporting events, we can’t guarantee anything but we’re extremely confident that the measures we’ve got in place are the right measures and we are ready to deal with something if it happens.”
She advised journalists there's “100% bag search” and “selective body search” in any respect gates – the latter of which might be carried out “on the basis of intelligence”.
Ms Bolton additionally mentioned the membership is working with behavioural detection officers from the Metropolitan Police.
“They’re not a new thing this year. We have them every year. So again they’re part of our operation this year and in a slightly enhanced way and maybe looking for slightly different things than they would in any other year,” she mentioned.
The Wimbledon web site incorporates a listing of banned objects together with cable ties, glue, chains and padlocks.
The web site makes it clear that guests with any banned merchandise “may be refused entry or ejected from the grounds” and any objects surrendered as a situation of entry can't be reclaimed.
Thousands of followers queued for the primary day of the event on Monday.
Love Island 2017 winner Kem Cetinay opened the primary checkpoint simply after 7am, yelling: “Let’s go,” and working by way of an arch in Wimbledon Park.
First within the queue, Julia Barker, 47, adopted the superstar along with her inexperienced queue ticket, stamped primary, alongside her husband Nicky, 54, and son Dan, 23.
The household, who've lived in Ireland for over 20 years however are initially from Latvia, have been tenting out since 7.30am on Saturday.
Dan advised the PA news company: “We didn’t expect to be first.”
He mentioned they'd hoped to safe tickets for Centre Court or Court One.
“Then we realised there was nobody here,” he added.
Sarah Hedley, a civil servant from Hull, has been to Wimbledon yearly since 1995, apart from 2020 when the event was cancelled due to the pandemic.
She celebrated her 53rd birthday within the queue on Sunday and advised PA: “My friend and I came in 1995.
“We were watching the six o’clock news in Birmingham and saw an article about the queue. I said, ‘I would really love to do that.’
“We were actually in the pub. We finished our second drink, went to mine, got a sleeping bag and got here at one o’clock in the morning.
Karen Mardon, from Surrey, said the Wimbledon queue is “very democratic”.
Standing in keeping with her three pals, all of their 60s, she advised PA: “It doesn’t mean that you only get to go because you have got lots of money.”
She mentioned it stops tickets solely going to the “fantastically rich”.
Lawyer Katrin Causch flew from Berlin to affix the queue for Wimbledon for the fourth time.
She arrived at Wimbledon Park at 11pm on Sunday outfitted solely with a sleeping bag.
Asked what the draw of Wimbledon is, she mentioned: “It’s just Wimbledon. It’s just unbelievable. It’s great.
“It’s the famous tournament and they make it possible for people to queue getting tickets instead of paying very high prices.
“It is amazing in the queue to meet people from all over the world.”
Spectators had been urged to pack raincoats and umbrellas and brace for scattered showers however there was sunshine and blue skies in south-west London early on Monday.
Warnings had additionally been issued round potential disruption to journey as Aslef mentioned final month its members would withdraw non-contractual additional time with 16 of the nation’s 35 rail operators for six days from Monday.
Home followers have six British gamers to cheer for on the primary day of the event – Dan Evans, Jodie Burrage, Katie Swan, Jan Choinski, Harriet Dart and Liam Broady.
The competitors will run till Sunday July 16.
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