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accusations of hypocrisy over how the u.k. harbors those facing far more serious charges. plus it's a race for the hearts and minds of all of them pick fans of russians are set to choose the mascot for the twenty fourteen winter games in sochi. with more news for no i mean we can learn all about the latest gadgets and high tech developments in technology out there. hello and welcome to technology update this month we're embracing the snowy season to bring you some of the latest innovations from the world of winter sports things off we're here at the rosa khutor complex in southern russia where the tracks for the sochi two thousand and fourteen olympics are facing their first test just

a week after the first russian cup stages wrapped up in mid february sixty athletes from twelve countries christened rosa khutor first stage in the alpine european cup men's downhill rave reviews were won by the brand new track the first of its kind in caliber on russian soil the top time however when she austrian cloakroom. back in september two thousand and nine we showed you will draw our version of those of foods that are already under construction but with a great deal of work ahead a long vision resort complex along the east coverage tension is a key part of russia's so she twenty fourteen olympics and a complex has come a long way in a short time span the technical backbone of any world class ski area is an extensive and efficient set of wits to make sure that roosevelt had the best no expense was spared with total costs estimated at six hundred fifty million euro the result in two thousand and eleven is stage one completion for the enjoyment of average ski enthusiasts as well as international stars this season four of the

projected. running opening of thirty eight kilometers of. helping foundations of visitors reached rosa hooter's heights is the russian aerialist producer scott. scott his production facilities in the volga river city of samarra are the birthplace of this high tech high altitude hardware along with their world renowned austrian partners double my own they cover over three fourths of the alpine lift market in russia and the c.i.s. . scotto is not a newcomer in the industry myself i've been running the company for over twenty five years. it's an enterprise with a long history of constructing roadways but if i was behind virtually all every. lifts in the former soviet union but the ski supplied and set up the hardware for all of the. variations of the elevated group way have been used for many centuries but the real boost came with the invention of the steel broke aerial cargo

transport was adopted by many industries because of its relatively high speed and low cost particularly for mineral extraction a complex story. in the second half of the twentieth century enthusiasm for alpine skiing experienced a worldwide boom in the caucasus mountains in what was then the soviet union were no exception with the unique climate in many of the highest peaks in europe and resorts popped up throughout the region commanding developed infrastructure is a task tailor made for scotto whose aerialists played a vital supporting role. today scott it was a post soviet private company with the same passion for aerial transport systems. modern lives require maskil metal working to turn out sturdy pull wheels precise guide rails and monumental supports our first. time tested welding techniques help ensure a culture durable string joints will be further inspected with x.

ray ultrasound in magnetic tests it's a slow and tedious process the distilled personnel has to make sure because each part is capable of withstanding not just the cargo load but also the cold the wind and the pressure nature is sure to try a long. videos these years since ninety ninety seven scada has set up more than two hundred fifty installations across russia and the commonwealth of independent states depending on the level of complexity got as input ranges from one hundred of a cent in the case of surface lifts so you know all fixed chairlifts seriously or it could be fifty to sixty to say if we're talking about if it's roadways i mean very complex transport systems including high speed lifts with higher passing. the passage is well. with human lives and literally in the balance the middle underpinnings of the aerialists have to be absolute detail proves the process called how did galvanising is employed on scotus constructions by partner firm and

some are in neighbors probe much this is most in sync not about you'd want to jump in to escape the russian winter bonds mythologically to the steel and forms a protective layer as with any steel or metal installation that towers in beams that hold up steel lifts are susceptible to failure from rusting corrosion the dangers of which are elevated in this case by harsh weather conditions positive galvanising offers more than a shiny exterior it should add to the structures life span by resisting these forces of nature. and the end of the 1980's at one of the international exhibitions i got acquainted with the managers from feel strain company which is the world's leader in roadway design and construction of nine hundred ninety seven of the long negotiations we finally agreed to establish a joint enterprise points that we had developed our own unique technical solutions but we also wanted to introduce dopamine as cutting edge ideas in the russian market with. jhumpa meyer has become a household name not just in the famous austrian alps but around the world today

the company has built more than fourteen thousand installations in over eighty countries scott a specialist travel frequently to double minor for training and a partnership has helped the austrians enter the growing russian market. and also so our part of the installation russia. here or my protocol. that corrects this you check brakes the second is the pension system for example you have to write for the right to loads. sky. the main effect here in russia. you may for example the station. they're.

planning in building no cliffs for ski areas is no overnight study engineering it calls for peace taking geographical and topographical analysis scotto handles the full cycle from site inspection design and planning proposal until the poles are up and the chairs are full of snow c.t.c. years to get there they spend weeks in the field making sure the right group is being selected the task is a careful balance between cost effectiveness and ease of engineering not every lift can be laid along the shortest line from point a to point b. often ski lodges and base areas are located in easy proximity to access roads and parking facilities leaving scott goes live a lot of work to get you to disclose his practice in the sochi twenty fourteen olympic skier he has shown they're up to the task. when the international olympic committee just across the aisle to decide with a saw she was eligible to play host to the twenty fourteen winter olympic games of the aerialist set up by

a company where the only technical installations that well up and running at that time. there was showcased to the i.o.c. evaluation commission. scotto has been building in the krasnaya polyana cluster since the one nine hundred eighty s. when it first put out for lists of the aisle because of his resort at the nearby gazprom complex scott has constructed six modern lines including one eight metre gondola one six person chair lift two for chair lifts and two basic tea books newest additions or rules of the olympic skier hill where scotto is behind three hundred person gondolas and one sixteen and chair lift in addition scotto will help build with their website claims will be the longest try cable people mover in the world to take skiers and eventually olympic spectators from the future train station. probably complex. right outside of must. all season option if you want to hone your skills snowboard skills before the trip down to sochi. maybe

a beginner but the show offs were still making me nervous about my first ever snowboard attempts scuttles lift solution for the concave curved enclosed complex was impressive but already the least of my worries as natasha tried to get me started down the slope sliding cautiously i wasn't the fastest learner and despite helpful coaching i was starting to wish for more familiar skis since i seem to be spending the lion's share of my time on my backside. for actually is feel like that doesn't hurt so bad things to think about influences but if i'm going to go in a room i truly need to figure out how to train myself a little bit going to this. luckily i didn't have to look too far and this seems nish kind of complex russian inventers me filemon wheel off and rooting machine and have set up a training center using one of a kind sky take interactive carving simulator in a market full of gym equipment for advanced athletes on one end and video games for casual consumers on the other dinham found

a use for me and filled it by combining and improving it to the result is an incredibly realistic training exercise experience to physical interaction. while earlier only now with a more impressive landscape for targets. on the elusive key here was finding and properly controlling my balance over the board. obviously my form leaves much to be desired so let's break down how a properly trained athlete would look on sky tech simulator pushing off of one edge the ski or snowboard or has to transfer their weight fluidly from side to side while maintaining a ford center of balance just as they would crossing and then turning on a real slope here's the contours of the. imitated by electric motors this skier board frame rests on rails and is pulled by steel ropes connected to the motors and reduction gears up to like tronic sensors to take both the edge angle in position of the rider relaying this information through the computer to the motors to

simulate it turn into the software to reproduce realistic motion on the screen. this deal is made in russia the software in power trying to clean developed in cooperation with our international partners say the first prototype took a year to make and taste is hardly when you three months to put together a simulator from scratch if you place an order for a model we already have the spare parts for we are ready to supply the final product within a month to get. back on my simulated board i was starting to get the hang of it and it's serious work out in the process before long tailed was able to personalize the experience in crank up the difficulty increasing my speed altering the course and penalize me for mr gates as yuri corrected my form and even cheered me on. to college he says the ability to control the characteristics of the slope on the go. software allows the instructor

to change the position of the deeds as needed for. these features make the training incredible efficiency in the. system you can change anything we say to come out at a dinner party logo and. absolutely you can at any objects to your virtual slew of people this is the most serious that part of the code for any downer is where we can place your logo the data will show the name of your channel our team know we taste and then are off onto the billboard. so you know it's really an we go. about. your banner was a nice bonus but still more encouraging was the increase in. beat the sound of family gets and the feeling that sky was making a border at stake. there's a simulated workout he just had it was in this rubbish no for a minute i think you'd agree though some very realistic much recently we have been

testing our system in three d. we can try it out right now with the help of these terrible s.s. . oh men the real thing or thing that i listed after this i can't wait to hear to write a story. while i'm enjoying my newfound snowboarding skills it's easy to forget that not all the winter games are going to be on the slopes innovations are also popping up in preparation for other events on the black sea coast less than fifty kilometers from krasnaya polyana small cluster of the future olympic village park stadiums and arenas are rising up in the city of sochi itself technology of the first covered the state of the are construction and it's really stages back in the late summer

two thousand and nine and while the best laid plans were already breaking ground they've come a long way in the year and a half from foundations and frames the future venues have begun to take shape the bolshoi ice palace will be the centerpiece of the complex built for the olympic hockey tournament in training it will fly home to hockey heroes from around the globe along with hordes of flag waving fans to cheer them on clinical. palace you see here will host the hockey medal games and can hold up to twelve thousand people . work on the frame of the building made of solid cast reinforced concrete as you can see we've also mentioned the seventeen arched girders of the toe shaped roof now we're working on the roof itself forty two percent of the construction has been completed which means we're right in line with the building schedule. and schedule in this case means not just ready for the february twenty fourth team olympiad but even earlier by late twenty's well when so she is slated to host a stage of the euro hockey tour this shiny silver shadow will eventually round out

the intended for use in brains rather to sign leaving a world class sports and entertainment arena to serve the city years after the torch is passed. meanwhile builders have other big projects on their hands in the coastal cluster for more ice cold competition spectators will pack into the sochi olympics skating center builds a slightly bigger dimensions to meet the demands of figure skating and short track racing events this center will also hold twelve thousand people and start hosting international change in shifts in late two thousand and twelve and you kind of didn't know you in this instance but this venue has a unique lodge spanning rooftop structure in terms of middleware talking two thousand times in total i think it was place will connect this to the main front of the building through to the city's engineering solution will help to meet the highest sause make requirements and is absolutely unique in the russian construction industry. with the. plans call for this getting center to be removable potentially for later use in another russian city it's

a cash conserving design that will give sochi a top notch skating facility for the twenty fourteen games as well as the chance to choose their own future for the site in the years that follow a speed cycling track is already among possible proposed. command center for sochi twenty four team preparations is the offices of the specifically creating construction company a liquor store with so much under construction and deadlines approaching its and understandably busy scene special attention has been focused on the sliding center back in the mountain cluster future homes delusion bobsled and skeleton events the unique track is already approaching completion in two thousand and eleven and life stadium sports like hockey are short track with tightly fixed layouts and dimensions each olympiad has a slightly different design for a sliding center based on the natural setting. this. particular side of his favorable conditions at least in northern slope over monterey and there is less to red sun here but the ice will hold for long girls and so will do sports

a seasonal. and the monsoon relief conforms to the geometry. no the trend is going to tone we're meeting there will be fewer supporting structures. so as most of their detractors fits in the contours of the sloop's topography of the russian national sliding center hopes to overcome what many consider design flaws in previous tracks as a lose dead in frightening li fest being cooper last year reminded us that these are dangerous sports and the builders are making for safer competition in sochi. no matter how much we love the beautiful milk use not every day on the slopes to be perfectly sunny the same snow that gives us our precious powder can also rolled in really sick and we need special food interest and a healthy build up from turning into a dead after. ski

areas have a very fragile relationship with snow is no fun and too much is a ticking time bomb. when the levee breaks is an earth trembling wall of white wings thousands of tons moving at hundreds of kilometers an hour sparing nothing in its past. the front line in the face of the snow situation is manned by avalanche control squads in the twenty first century they're a quick weaving creasing the versatile technology for accessing remote mountain areas even in inclement weather monitoring the size of drifts and easing the build up with remotely controlled snow blasts no amount of new gear will replace their vital role in alerting skiers and running operations with innovative ideas can make their job easier and safer a key element in our avalanche defenses is a system of nets designed to hold back the ever growing snow pile but how can we

monitor the tension built up behind these barriers without having to dig our way up here all winter long the answer could just be right inside these unassuming little in case. it's. the basic plastic box design might not have all can be in ski or money bitch but they're still made by a st petersburg based firm called evan guard and they could provide a revolutionary function in the avalanche early warning system. nurse sensors measure the lengthening of the rope depending on the load at therapy and if using the rope is subjected to heightened tension it stretches and it's dislike lengthening that is detected and measured by our sensors ready with a click modules inciting casements can transmit the information about the strength to a remote computer so that any overweight or you can immediately order of a snow removal operation at the remote headquarters among guards runs a monitoring center they keeps a constant eye on the distance southern russia they're not replacing boots on the

ground just yet but they're collecting valuable data to model the snowdrift trends and alert their frontline colleagues to see what the sensors run an autonomous mode sending signals through wireless connection to feel pressure doesn't need to search for information we need in the twenty first century and data should be coming to us not the other way around you and detention centers are a new concept being tested and improved on the fly for hardware that means seeing what the weather's all seasons in the following mountain climbing then there's the question of how the data received from the sensor news set up can best be incorporated into fisty havelange control efforts eventually reducing required manpower this is a notion he spoke. to them in terms of scientific and technical developments with the theory we collaborate with a number of western companies for example with the v t t technical research center of finland several companies from germany switzerland and france he's going through a participant in international projects and together we developed a new promising products just because you know is deep. in the mountains and loads

of unguarded based products for more than just the resorts since roads railways and popular. centers also meet avalanche warning systems and the rugged terrain around them may be far more inaccessible for lack of slopes and lifts. production also includes all kinds of microelectronic detection systems with the most common applications for observing the state of urban infrastructure to. monitor the stability of historical buildings to see flow of gas to residential complexes to smooth operation of power stations and the structural integrity of roads and bridges. been generated status timeline to help diagnose potential problems i mean guards technology is pinned on the principle that it's better to detect defects in advance deal with the aftermath of an accident. back in moscow we can check out how technology is not just making winter sporting safer but also

helping a separate. rule breakers system to be used. is already in place and this must. it might not be the first thing you focus on here in the crowd at your favorite sporting event but only important refereeing has a high tech new look since the outcome often hinges on close calls to be chartered says company slow mo t.v. has partnered with the kontinental hockey league teams in stadiums to maximize the odds of getting them right while you root for your team to put the result comfortably out of question video referee has its eyes on a game of inches. is adapted their strong background in video replay and multi-channel camera central systems to meet demands for professional hockey for precise officiating a system based on the client's budget and stadium infrastructure. up to eleven channels of high definition video monitoring with all these angles at their fingertips for making any number of tough calls judges are most concerned with the

versatile comprehensible interface when the pressure's on and time is of the essence unlike many other sports that have resisted moves to video based refereeing mechanisms hockey has fast paced close confines decisions in and the russian league is actually on the front of the american n.h.l. in tackling the situation with technology if. a referee system does not simply meet the international standards he said the benchmark meets high requirements and those defined in the regulations of the n.h.l. or the international ice hockey federation there were given so it's a very vast tool helping referees to take the right decision in ninety eight to ninety nine percent of goal one case just about. this mess in moscow home said you know had the better record coming in and look strong in early play but the visitors from the visitors' were not about to be bullied in the last match of the regular season by sure enough just six and a half minutes into the first period no suggest mounted

a charge that had the lights flashing the crowd waiting anxiously and the refs making the call upstairs to the video referee down on the ice and. looked like a near miss off the pipe but soon c.b.s. equipment was needed for a closer look gone no goal whether any often suppliers in the crease after careful review to replay confirm the call and the number was state with no goal surrender. just the clip was that well this was several years ago the referees took decisions in disputed incidents on their own and very often fans of the teams management questioned the ruling saying it was biased since last year we decided to stop this practice and introduce the position of video referee for example when the course of the light in the last seconds of the game it's not clear whether it was before or after the clock runs actually so we asked the developers to display the time of the screen up with salute the video referee could decide if we have five or six such moments last season and thanks to the improvements the referees made the right call you come on the public and show the teams look if you don't believe us we can

always play back to take. the field referee system works well for the cage shell confirming that the number would enter the playoffs coming off a two one overtime win. what about all the hockey action slated for sochi twenty four team slim would see these products would be in the bolshoi ice palace where goals could translate to a limpid goal but is it will be slow mo t.v. product first because it provides the functionality we need second because her reliable partner since many russian t.v. stations have used it so we can for many years before monteith camera shoots of concerts or shows so much interest and third it's cheaper and them similar products western companies and most importantly it's much better soon the t.v. is already attempting to branch out to other sports basketball can come down to disputed close calls fencing to the slightest touch replays are often required to

verify violations in short track speed skating soon more slowmo products could still make the sochi games work for this edition is still in but the sochi twenty four team construction team is still working to make sure we have plenty more updates headed your way join us again next month and while the powder is still fresh enjoy the ride. just. to.

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