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behind me shows that time is ticking. summertime resort into a cutting edge winter sports complex. countdown is. not so. placed in a smattering of the country cities the next winter olympics are fast approaching and that it's time for the final push. to the nations. the recent unveiling of official uniforms for the run up to the games really. to resemble a. tradition began at the. olympics is being kept alive by everyone since. each host country has tried to. special. for the one nine hundred sixty games in the u.s. was designed. dynamic enough to allow it to be.

transported under water at the great barrier reef before the two thousand sydney games. by plane train maker. has been specially designed but the gravity. of the shape the body is made of aluminum a total of one point eight kilograms. by propane tucked inside the system for which it was designed by rocket engine maker machinist rate only plant given the stakes designers and engineers want to make sure everything works exactly as it should. first of all the torch has to stay late under any condition and it must light immediately it has to function twelve minutes in temperatures lower than forty five

degrees below zero it has to work properly whether there is wind blowing from the left from the right behind the front and so on it has to work in the rain snow or any other whether. the torch has to function in a high mountain where there is low pressure which is important but in my limited number of torches it will be produced especially for this purpose. for the torch can be used to light the cauldron in sochi next year it's got quite a busy travel schedule ahead of it it will make its way all over russia being carried by many of the country's biggest and brightest personalities the list of those carrying the flame will likely include summer olympians who will have to sit on the sidelines as their cold weather compatriots carry the national banner into competition. over seven the torch will be lit in greece and flown over to moscow from there it will be taken on a whirlwind one hundred twenty three day tour around russia is slated to pass through nearly three thousand cities and to cover around sixty five thousand

kilometers in the process of fifteen thousand olympic and paralympic torches will be built specially designed to deal with whatever the russian winter throws at it rain wind or snow the olympic flame and ideals it represents simply won't be extinguished. the journey to this point started five and a half years ago when russia's and vicious plan was chosen. the olympic park and a company to rename the water's edge amid sochi subtropical weather in an effort to make the. but that's only half.

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time. all of the projects. to make sure that they don't unnecessarily threaten the environment or spectators. off in the distance russian technology is being used for that very purpose. the longest track in the world is the only top of the line in the whole of russia. it was built from the ground up

. to make sure everything is working smoothly in anticipation of the world's attention the technology required to create such breathtaking displays is. giving ice at just the right temperature and consistency is a major part of the task. so far the results speak for themselves. i like to track the ice is getting better every day is because. i think the track was designed properly. in the case safety on and around the course is really priority number one. there are three inclined hills to help keep over the top speed. keep an eye on the potentially dangerous but necessary chemicals used to make the track ice traditionally ammonia and freon have been the two main ways to keep big things cool ammonia refrigerants have always been valued for the relatively low cost as well as better cooling stats

that's been balanced against their overpowering smell and serious toxicity freon on the other hand lower toxicity levels and is totally odorless which actually may make freon leaks more difficult to spot it's uses waned in recent decades destroying qualities have become better known a major reason and so cheap to. freo doesn't have. any kind of smell. it's a heavy gas and in case of major leaks it settles down to the ground. presence there so if they enter a room with a freon leak they can experience oxygen deficiency which may result in poisoning or even death. to. keep track does it use the dangerous freon. pumping throughout. the company responsible for producing

first. in case of a leak they have three levels of warning depending on the concentration of whole sections of the piping can be closed off. prior to implementing the system it would take fifteen to sixteen minutes for information about emergencies to reach those who needed it at times it was even covered up now it's impossible to conceal this kind of data. the company actually developed some produces a wide array of different detecting sensors they run the gamut from electro chemical to thermal catalytic to acoustic heart they all have fast acting technology after going through calibration and testing here incomes office there ready to be plugged in for round the clock contamination monetary. magically it's constantly running constantly doing what it's supposed to. the case of an emergency within forty seconds. transmitted to trigger the warning system and

allows the necessary measures to be taken it all happens very quickly. with. all the data from such sensors. to local branches of the country's emergency services ministry. information from the connected. stations like this. and another pair of. monitors. those federal watchdog should be able to react in real time. to devote all their attention to record breaking feats. or the ongoing construction and coming influx of sports mad. power grid was in need of much more. transmission. station was built in two thousand using techniques.

construction on the surrounding area. for all the other substations popping up in the area after it given the sometimes twenty degrees below zero temps engineers house and much of the machinery behind closed doors. including the federal grid company has increased the number of mountain substations many times over the. transformers are already hooked in and deliver the right voltage to the mountain new sites while under construction is said to be ready for action this march at the same time six more have been built provide the juice to the coastal cluster and surrounding areas. existing substations have been updated to ensure the lights don't go out on the olympics. construction has progressed over the past few years. the constant uptick. projects have been completed and. the grid. safe.

stations have given extra. capacity to. produce supplies that they clean. is a perfect fuel for generators and to get that gas. pipeline one hundred seventy two kilometers about one hundred sixty of. about a half kilometers off. the gas makes its way to the. station. absolutely.

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whole spectrum of sunlight into energy to. allow them to harness both in. the form of some thirty percent. of course. we do have sophisticated. scientists working on the premises of. choice when you consider that the campus has long been. an innovation new facilities have sprung up including a special. energy technologies so by the time. potentially deadly blizzard taking aim for the northeast it's expected to hit stunning in

a few hours from new york to maine we have team coverage of the storm. but what we're watching is the very heavy snow moving into boston proper earlier today it was very sticky you can see it start to become much more powdery down here the bottom line there is still a lot of snow out here a good place for snowball fight. jason it is going to be pretty incredible day there and even record snowfall throughout much of it might still be slow to be driving license of emergency vehicles are exceptions.

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it's a low hard road to top for any of us out here in russia have at it an experimental exercise knowing rigorous training regimen. it seems cruel but despite all the hard work blood sweat and tears the majority of aspiring athletes will never reach these peaks of professional sports but that in mind researchers working with the university of physical culture and sport in moscow a looking to harness the latest technology to get aspiring athletes over that hump is potentially dangerous and illegal doping isn't an option the new secret to success may lie in a limit ever present in the air we breathe but longer overlooked. discovered over one hundred years ago by sir william ramsey travers' a novel finding certainly practical applications for. the one nine hundred thirty s. found use in high speed flash photography and a bit later as an anesthetic in operations. from being adopted by the

medicine. could be changing. thanks to work being carried out here at the institute of medical and biological problems xenon could be on the verge of a major revival. amongst the hyperbaric chambers where many of the country's divers and astronauts have gone through pressure chamber tests and training docs are taking a look at just what xenon has to offer. recent years what used to be observable favorable side effects of base and has become objects of inquiry in their own right. actually how the gas interacts with receptors is still under study initial trials and experiments have shown that xenon and its neuroprotective properties can relieve stress anxiety and even help addicts get over withdrawal symptoms. and if we talk about the production of. there's no better place to look in the business for over twenty years.

all over the globe company officials placed their market share at around one quarter of. their history the company has primarily dealt with so-called technical that is not for human ingestion but over the years medical benefits have grown the demand for. has followed accordingly. other gases are all around us all of the time they just in such small quantities that getting our hands on them requires sophisticated machinery and no small dose of know how as a result there's a very limited number of countries currently able to capture. and put it to use for human kind. of course who are all human producers worldwide extracted from air there are only five countries they produce it commercially like the united states france germany russia and ukraine. is recovered

as a byproduct of oxygen production it's large mental or physical factories plants special air separating machines oxygen and also generate as an encrypted mixture as a byproduct or the next of those to gases is then shipped to us before the refining which we manufacture for medical purposes. requires extra puti cation. the purity of the zenon that will produce is ninety nine point nine nine nine nine percent additionally we also limit the share of harmful impurities in the gas our refining isn't paid indeed unique and allows us to remove all the. you can further be used for surgeries and all kinds of other treatments. at the end of the process. and nearly ready to be sent on to clinics and hospitals under the brand name med at the moment is still rather expensive especially when compared

with other and statics. proponents argue that when you take into account problems in complications associated with other knockout gases the prices come closer together but before the medical gets into the hands of a qualified doctor every batch is tested and checked for purity. requires them to control for six kinds of impurities they go the extra mile to control for a full ten as a result the level of impurities in the medical xenon produced here is around two to three times lower than regulators demand. every year we discover new particularly over using xenon. as an end. as a result. of an absolutely new ways to play. this is a truly unique medicine it is totally harmless to humans but at the same time very powerful and it can be used to treat just about any organ in the body depending on

what the problem is with. medical xenon has many potential applications researchers here are specifically interested in how we can improve the performance of athletes they recently organize an experiment to lay the groundwork for future use in sports. to be a very strong stress protractor. in other words in all cases involving stress whether it be acute a chronic stress the best way to deal with it is small therapeutic doses of this substance and when we talk about spilled before competition and athletes needs to relax sleep well unimproved he's a functional capacities with this experiment we're trying to see just how xenon can help him. so over a ten day period a group of young athletes were given a controlled dose of scene and had a healthier vitals monitor such research is allowing doctors and scientists to

better understand how the gas actually interacts with the body's organisms as well as working out the best way to incorporate into one's workout after taking in the gas the experiments the subjects would spend the night in a controlled environment where their sleep patterns could be followed more closely . to see what the results of the experiment looked like from the athlete side of the coin we checked in on one of the. training across country in complex that will host the vince in two thousand and fourteen in his mind of the short experiment and a noticeable effect. after the experiment in the. it was much easier for me to train and i was able to recover much more quickly afterwards. during the test trainings at my ski club i posted the best results. more experiments are planned for later this year but of course it will take some

simple breathing sessions to get to these guys level both the first results and researchers hope that they've done their part to bring hardware back home this time next year. old to be used in professional sports. it's going to be. physicians and hopefully they will be able to use it to help athletes get. back at the olympic park like the ice palace are already completed and starting to host their preliminary test events earlier this month the main hockey arena was packed to the gills not for any competition but to mark the start of the final countdown. of entertaining performances as well as speeches by international sports chiefs and national leaders there's not a minute. much less

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