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sochi twenty 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 asian 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 tough time however when to austrian may flow. back in september two thousand and nine we showed you will draw our version of those who are already under construction but with a great deal of work ahead a long vision resort complex along i.e. the bridge tension is a key part of russia's so she twenty fourteen olympic bid in 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 lists to make sure that those of the to have the best no expense was spared with total costs estimated at six hundred fifty million euro the results 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 up thirty kilometers of new fronts helping fountains of visitors reach those hooters 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 hover over three fourths of the alpine lift market in russia and the c.i.s. to jump on the scale is not a newcomer in the industry is that the company myself of a running the company for over twenty five years. is an enterprise with a long history of constructing roadways. and virtually all every. lefse in the former soviet any advice. supplied and set up the hardware full 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 silvie derian were no exception with the unique climate in many of the highest peaks in europe resorts popped up throughout the region demanding developed infrastructure is in 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 mass steel metal work to turn out sturdy pull wheels precise guide rails and monumental support terrorists. time tested welding techniques help

ensure a culture of durable string joints will be further inspected with x. ray ultrasound in magnetic tests it's a slow and tedious process but distilled personnel has to make sure that each part is capable of withstanding not just the cargo load but also the cold the wind and the pressure nature is sure to find a long. video of the since nine hundred ninety seven scott has set up more than two hundred fifty installations across russia and the commonwealth of independent states depending on the level of complexity as input ranges from one hundred percent in the case of surface lifts exclude chairlifts seriously or it could be fifty to sixty percent if we're talking about a stroke was this i mean very complex transport systems including high speed lifts with higher passing. capacity is. with human lives literally in the balance the middle underpinnings of the aerialists have to be absolutely fail proof

a process called how did galvanising is employed on scalia's constructions by partner firm and some are in neighbors probed much this is most in sync not about you want to jump in to escape the russian winter bondsmen allegedly to the steel and forms a protective layer as with any steel or metal installation the towers and beams to hold of steel lips are susceptible to failure from rusting corrosion the dangers which are elevated in this case by harsh weather conditions positive galvanising offers more than a shiny exterior it should add to the structures like me and by resisting these forces of nature. the end of the 1980's at one of the international exhibitions i got acquainted with a manages from the australian company which is the world's leader in roadway design and construction of the nine hundred ninety seven the long negotiations we finally agreed to establish a joint enterprise point we developed our own unique technical solutions but we also wanted to introduce double miles cutting edge ideas in the russian model it

was a bit. 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 dump for training and a partnership has helped the austrians enter the growing russian market. and also we are so our part of the installation russia so. you're. correct this you check. with a contest is the pension system for example you have to write for the right to los . is. sky. and manufacture here in russia and also your mates for example the station.

they're. together. planning in building mail lists for ski areas the snow overnight study engineering it calls for painstaking geographical and topographical analysis scotto handles the full cycle from site inspection design and planning proposal until the polls are up and the chairs are full of snow seeking skiers to get there they spend weeks in the field making sure the right group is be selected the task is a careful balance between cost effectiveness and ease of engineering not every day lives 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 meeting scotto slips a lot of work to get you to the slopes as practiced in the sochi twenty fourteen olympic skier he has shown there up to the task. when the international olympic committee visited cross. to decide with us so 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 welcomed running at that time . 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 up for lifts at that altitude serious resort at the nearby gazprom complex scott has constructed six modern lines including one in eight men gondola one six person chair lift two for chair lifts and two basic t. books two newest additions are rules of the olympic ski hill where scotto is behind three hundred person gondolas and one six man chair lift in addition scott i will help build with the website claims will be the longest try cable keeble mover in the world to take skiers and eventually olympic spectators from the future train station. to the complex. right outside of lust is the scotto built all season option if you want to hone your skier snowboard skills

before the trip down to sochi. get mazie of beginner hill 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. like that doesn't hurt so bad thanks to the snow they've got in the inches but if i'm going to go in there i can figure out how to train myself. luckily i didn't have to look too far and this seems nish kind of complex russian inventers me on wheel off and u.t. machine and had set up a training center using their one of a kind of 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 the mirror just a short while earlier only now with a more impressive landscape and gates for targets. as u.t. coached me 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 this gear or snowboarder 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 still ropes connected to the motors and reduction gears up to let tronic sensors detect both the edge angle and position of

the rider relaying this information through the computer to the motors to simulate a turn and to the software to reproduce realistic motion on the screen. this deal is made in russia computer software and power trying to develop in cooperation with our international partners so the first prototype took a year to make and test is currently with three months to put together a simulator from scratch if you place an order for a model and we already have spare parts for the one we are ready to supply the final product within a month you 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 the scale was able to personalize the experience and crank up the difficulty increasing my speed altering the course and analyzing me for mistakes as yuri corrected my form and even cheered me. as your knowledge he says the

ability to control the characteristics of the slope on the go. software allows the instructor to change the position of the kids as needed so. these features make the training unique credibility fissions in the. system you can change anything we say to come out at a dinner party logo up. absolutely you can at any objects to your virtual slow and this is the most gears that part of the code for it to downers so where we can place your logo. that it will show the name will be your channel fourteen no we take and then are off on so the billboard right so you know it's ready and we go. about. your banner was a nice bonus but still more encouraging was the increase in. beat the sound of the gates and the feeling that sky six was making a border. and there's

a simulated workout he just hand it wasn't a traditional it's u.g. for me i think you'd agree it was 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. . the real thing or should the railway station after this i can't wait for it. 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 smelter cluster the future olympic village park stadiums and arenas are rising up in the city of sochi itself technology up the first covered

the state of the are construction and its early stages back in late summer two thousand and nine and while the best laid plans were already breaking ground they've come a long way in a 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 play home to hockey heroes from around the globe along with hordes of flag waving fans to cheer them. as you see here will host the hockey medal games 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 measured the seventeen arched girders of the dome shaped roof from now we're working on the roof itself forty two percent of the construction is to complete her job. which means we're right in line with the building schedule. one schedule in this case means not just ready for the february twenty fourth team olympiad but even earlier by late twenty's twelfth when sochi is slated to host

a stage of the euro hockey tour this shiny silver shell will eventually round out the intended for use in brain drug design leaving a world class sports and entertainment arena to serve the city years after the torch has passed. while goobers have other big projects on their hands and the coastal cluster for more ice cold competition spectators will pack into the sochi olympics training center built a slightly bigger dimensions to meet the demands of figure skating and short track racing events the center will also hold twelve thousand people and start hosting international championships in late two thousand and twelve. because of the goodness of this business but this venue has a unique large span roof top structure in terms of metal we're talking two thousand tons in total you think it was flexible connected to the mine from the building 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 the skating 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 followed the speed cycling track is already among possible proposals. the command center for sochi twenty four team preparations is the offices of the specifically creating construction company a little story 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 twenty eleven unlike stadiums sports like hockey or short track with tightly fixed layouts and dimensions each olympiad has a slightly different design. i'm for a sliding center based on the natural setting. this one of the of this particular side has favorable conditions school he says northern slope over monterey into and

there's a less direct sun here but the ice will hold for long girls and so will do sports a seasonal the effect is that the monsoon a relief conforms to the geometry of the track going to john ward meaning there will be fewer supporting structures. so as most if it were the track of it so the contours of the slopes topography of. the russian national sliding center hopes to overcome what many consider design flaws in previous tracks as a lose dedekind frighteningly fast vancouver last year reminded us these are dangerous sports and the builders are making for safer competition in sochi. no matter how much we love the beautiful male views not every day on the slopes to meet for a sunny the same snow that gives us our precious powder can also rolled in really sick and we need special food and prevent a healthy build up from turning into a dead after.

ski areas have a very fragile relationship with snow known is no fun and too much is it taking time. when the levee breaks is an earth trembling wall of white weighing thousands of tons moving it 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 there are quickly to increasing 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 kandinsky or money bitch but they're still made by a st petersburg based firm called on guard and they could provide a revolutionary function in the avalanche early warning system. or sensors measure the length of a rope depending on the load at fairview in the future when the rope is subjected to heightened tension it stretches and it's the slight lengthening that is detected and measured by our sensors and of movement ready with a chronic modules inside the case which can transmit the information about the strength to a remote computer so that any always or you can immediately order a snow removal operation for the remote headquarters runs a monitoring center that keeps

a constant eye on the distant 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 where the sensors run an autonomous mode sending signals through wireless connection to feel pressure doesn't need to search for information but even the twenty first century and data should be coming to us not the other way around you and detention centers are a new concept be tested and improved on the fly for hardware that means seeing what the weather's all seasons in the fall mountain climbing then there's the question of how the data received from the sensor news center can best be incorporated into existing havelange control efforts eventually reducing required manpower this is no she's cool but i wouldn't change in terms of scientific and technical developments with a theophany and we collaborate with a number. western companies for example with the v t t technical research center of finland several companies from germany switzerland and france he spoke english to

the participants in international projects and together we developed new promising products just because you know is even. in the mountains and wound up in guard makes products for more than just ski resorts since roads railways and population centers also meet avalanche warning systems and the rugged terrain around them may be far more inaccessible for lack of slopes and lifts. guards production also includes all kinds of microelectronics detection systems with the most common applications for observing the state of urban infrastructure. monitor the stability of historical buildings to say flow of gas to residential complexes to smooth operation of power stations and the structural integrity of roads and bridges. couldn't generate to detail status timeline to help diagnose potential problems haven't guards technology is pinned on the principle that it's better to detect defects in advance then 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 winners from losers from rule breakers a system to be used for sochi olympic hockey is already in place and this must be why serena. him might not be the first thing you focus on when you're 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 key to the choices companies slowmo t.v. has partnered with the kontinental hockey league teams in stadiums to maximize the odds of getting them right while you move for your team to put the result comfortably out of question video referee has its eyes on a game of inches slew of t.v. is adapted their strong background in video replay and multi-channel camera control systems to meet demands for professional hockey for a person. nice 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 a versatile comprehensible interface when the pressure's on and time is of the essence like many other sports that have resisted moves to video based refereeing mechanisms hockey has fast paced close confines decisions in and the russian we actually on the front of the american and in tackling the situation with technology to improve the media referee system does not simply meet the international standards we set the benchmark it meets higher requirements than those the found in the regulations so if the n.h.l. or the international ice hockey federation it were a good thing so it's a very vast tool helping referees to take the right decision in ninety eight to ninety nine percent of goalline cases and upwards. and this mission must go 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 referee down on the ice it looked like a near miss off the pike but slower tv's equipment was needed for a closer look cooley no goal were there any often suppliers in the crease after careful review the replay confirmed the call and the number was stayed with no goal surrender. this if it was that was the several years ago the referees took decisions in disputed incidents on their own and very often fans in 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 it is up to the for example in the course of the light in the last seconds of the game it's not clear whether it. before or after the clock runs out we asked the developers to display the time of the screen salute the video referee could decide we have five or six such moments not seen

a face to the improvements the referees made the right call you call on the public to show the team's look if you don't believe us we can always play back to tell you go to 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 actions we did for sochi twenty four teams sloan would see these products would be in the bolshoi ice palace where goals could translate to limpid goal. first because it provides the functionality we need certainty becomes a reliable partner since many russian t.v. stations have used to sit with them for many years before multi-cam or shoots of concerts or shows so much interest and third that it's cheaper and them similar products of western companies and most importantly it's much better soon 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 su more slow more products could still make the sochi games our work for this edition is still on 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. something strange in the atlantic in republic. center of russian defense production . now was he heads to central russia. crafts or become an industry. the harsh winter makes it even more enjoyable. when everyone can train to be a stump. russian it

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