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to bring you some of the latest innovations from the world of winter sports few things offer here the rosa 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 that brand new track the first of its kind in caliber on russian soil the tough time however went to austrian maple tree. 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 along vision restore complex along the i can go bridge tension is a key part of russia 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 up with to make sure that rosa khutor 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 up thirty kilometers of new run 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 english market in russia and the c.i.s. by the scout who is not a newcomer in the industry is that the company myself have been running the company for over twenty five years. it's an enterprise with a long history of constructing roadways. and virtually all every. listen the former soviet enemy and with the skills we designed supplied and set up the hot with all

of the. variations of the elevated group we have been used for many centuries with a 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 in complex trade. 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 sylvian were no exception with the unique climate in many of the highest peaks in europe a few resorts popped up throughout the region demanding developed infrastructure it is a task tailor made for scotto music aerialists played a vital supporting role. today scott i would suppose soviet private company with the same passion for aerial transport systems. modern lives require mass scale metal working to turn out sturdy pull wheels precise guy

grills and monuments will support our first. time tested welding techniques help ensure a culture durable strip 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 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 with visual since not to know he said it should scuttle has set up more than two hundred fifty installations across russia and the commonwealth of independent states depending on the level of complexity is input ranges from one hundred percent in the case of surface lives. chairlifts seriously or it could be fifty to sixty percent if we're talking about a stroke was running very complex transport systems including high speed lifts with higher passage. capacity. with human lives literally in the balance the middle

underpinnings of the aerialists have to be absolutely essential proves the process called how did galvanising is employed on scalia's constructions by partner firm and some are in neighbors pro much this is molten zinc not a bad you'd want to jump in to escape the russian winter bondsmen allegedly did the steel and forms a protective layer as with any steel or metal installation the towers and beams that hold up ski lifts are susceptible to feel year 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 life span 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 monthly fee austrian company which is the world's leader in roadway design and construction of the united ninety seven of 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 dopamine as cutting edge ideas in the russian market with . meyer has become a household name not just in the famous austrian alps but around the world to date the company has billboard then fourteen thousand installations in over the countries scott a specialist travel frequently ditto for training and the partnership has helped the austrians enter the growing russian market. because. also there so talk about. russia so. it's here. you check. the pension system for example you have to write for the right to loads and the third is. sky. and then effect

here in russia and also your name for example as they should. last there. together. planning in building no lifts for ski areas is no 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 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 meeting scotto slips a lot of work to get used to slopes as practiced in the sochi twenty fourteen olympic skier he has shown there up to the task. when the international olympic

committee visited across the ana just signed with us so she was eligible to play host to the twenty fourteen winter olympic games a senior the aerialist set up by a company where the only technical installations that well up and running at that time is sort of. a showcase for the i.o.c. evaluation commission. scott who has been building a krasnaya polyana cluster since the 1980's when he first put up for less of the alpha considered his resort at the nearby gazprom complex scott has constructed six modern lines including one evenin gondola one six person chair lift two for chair lifts and today sixty books newest additions are at rosa khutor the olympic steel where scott was 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 people mover in the world to take skiers and eventually olympic spectators from the future train station. to the complex. right outside of los.

gatos all season option if you want to hone your skier 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 scotto as list 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 that they've got here and branches but if i'm going to i can figure out how to train myself a little bit. luckily i didn't have to look too far and this seems nish kind of complex russian inventers me common wheel off and uni machine and have set up a training center using their one of a kind 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 the gym found a use for me shhh and filled it by combining and improving it to the result is an incredibly realistic training exercise experience the physical interaction mirrored just a short while earlier only now with a more impressive landscape and gates 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. it's imitated by electric motors the skier

board frame rests on rails and is pulled by steel ropes connected to the motors and reduction of years until the 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. the steel is made in russia software and co a triune being developed in cooperation with our international partners see the first prototype took a year to make and test currently we are three months to put together a simulator from scratch if you place an order for a model and we already have the spare parts for a religious supply the final product within a must 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 of altering the course and penalize me for mr gates as yuri corrected my form and

even cheered me. as acknowledge he has the ability to control the characteristics of the slope on the go. software allows the instructor to change the position of the gates as needed so. these features make the training incredible efficiency in the system for me you can change anything we say to come out at a yard sale logo or. absolutely you can at any objects to your virtual slope and this is the most here's the part of the code for it to banners so we can place your logo and then it will show the name of your channel our team no we take and then are off on so 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 hitting the gates and the feeling that sky was making

a porter at me. and there's a simulated workout he just hand it was in the traditional is u.g. for i think you'd agree it was a very realistic recently we have been testing our system in three d. we can try it out right now with the help of the stereo whistles. and this is the real thing or should i listen to the after this i can't wait for it. while i'm enjoying my new found 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 of the first covered the studio 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 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 on. when the. palace you see here will host the hockey medal games and can hold up to twelve thousand people finished 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 dome shaped roof now we're working on the roof itself forty two percent of the construction is be completed. which means we're right in line with the building schedule. one

schedule in this case means not just ready for the feb twenty fourth teen olympiad but even earlier by late twenty twelve when so she is slated to host this stage of the euro hockey tour this shiny silver show 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 is passed and meanwhile builders have other big projects on their hands and the coastal cluster for more ice cold competition spectators will pack into the sochi olympics skating 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 change in shifts 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 middleware talking two thousand times in total you think it was place will connect to the main front of the building so that the space engineering solution will help to meet the highest sause

make requirements and this absolutely unique in the russian construction industry would proceed 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 follow a speed cycling track is already among possible proposed. command center for sochi twenty four she reparations is the offices of the specifically creating construction company a lame steroid 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 home to the bobsled and skeleton events the unique track is already approaching from the police in in two thousand and eleven unlike stadiums sports like hockey or short track with tightly fixed layouts and emissions each olympiad has a slightly different design. and for a sliding center based on the natural setting. this one of the of this particular

site has favorable conditions school at least in northern slope over monterey and there's a less direct sun here with it but the ice will hold for long girls and so will do sports a seasonal birth but i do think the monsoon a relief conforms to the chometz three zero the track going to its own words meaning there will be fewer supporting structures. so as most of the middle of the track if it's in 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 dead can frighteningly fast lane cooper 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 mountain views 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 and presenting

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 a teaching time bomb. when the levee breaks it's an earth trembling wall of white weighing thousands of tons moving it hundreds of kilometers an hour sparing nothing in its path. the front line in the face of the snow situation is manned by avalanche control squads in the twenty first century there are quickly the increasingly 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 encasements. 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 evan 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 it bears on the user when the rope is subjected to heightened tension it stretches just dislike lengthening that is detected and measured by our sensors and what to do 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 on guard 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 were in 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 being tested and improved on the fly for hardware that means seeing what the weather's all seasons in the volatile mountain climate then there's the question of how the data received from the sensor news center can best be incorporated into existing avalanche control efforts eventually reducing required manpower this is no should teach. them in terms of scientific and technical developments with the theophany and we collaborate with a number. western companies for example with the technical research center of

finland several companies from germany switzerland and france he's one of the ones for the participants in international projects and together we developed a new promising products with you know easy. 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 microelectronic detection systems with the most common applications for observing the state of urban infrastructure. monitoring 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 the equipment generates a detail status timeline to help diagnose potential problems among 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 at this moscow ice arena. in 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 the choices companies slowmo t.v. has partnered with the continental 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 and video referee has its eyes on a game of inches. t.v. is adapted their strong background in video replays multichannel camera control systems to meet demands for professional hockey for a person. nice officiating system based on the client's budget and stadium

infrastructure and 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 like many other sports that have resisted moves to video based refereeing mechanisms hockey has fast paced close confines decisions in droves and the russian league is actually out in front of the american n.h.l. in tackling the situation with technology to improve the. referee system does not simply meet the international standards we set the benchmark it meets higher requirements than those different in the regulations of the n.h.l. or the international ice hockey federation or 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 of course. it does mention moscow home sydenham 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 lot sure enough just six and a half minutes into the first period most against mounted a charge that had the lights flashing the crowd waiting anxiously and the rest making the call upstairs to the referee down on the ice it looked like a near miss off the pipe but slow tv's equipment was needed for a closer look gulu no bread winner and often suppliers in the crease after careful review to be played confirm the call and the number was stayed with no goal surrender. discipline it was that was the to 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 for example when the puck crossed the line in the last seconds of the game it's not clear whether was it . before or after the talk. we asked the developers to display the time on the

screen of salute the video referee could decide if we have five or six such moments not seen and thanks to the improvements the referees made the right call you thought the public could show the teams look if you don't believe us we can always play back to tell you go so 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 teams slimmer t.v.'s products will be in the bolshoi ice palace where goals could translate to a limpid goal but is chosen to slow mo to beat prolific 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 monteith camera shoots of concerts or shows so much interest and third that it's cheaper and them similar products of western companies with them and most importantly it's much better to

move he is already attempting to branch out to other sports basketball can come down the disputed close calls. and say to the slightest touch replays are often required to verify violations in short track speed skating so more slow more products could still make the sochi games our work for this edition is still on 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 still fresh enjoy the ride. in the united kingdom she's available in fact the house bill and the forty one hotel the old waverly hotel they can also tell the mill stone hotel some old country house holiday inn the pool the towns the rembrandt the creamy that used to

feel the insecure town the old phone the rubens hotel.