robert carlin known marty. finally with less than a year to go to was such a winter olympics given the way the ice has been laid down the shi'a hockey arena as a brand new venue prepares to stages first test events with more on this is michael crabtree. well russia of course is in full preparation mode for the twenty fourteen sochi winter olympic games now just over eleven months away this past week was devoted to some essential bureaucratic matz's that the head of russia's olympic committee alexander spoke of was on hand to sign at the problems are stubborn and. we have agreed on the steps to take in order to ensure the best possible performance of our athletes we have agreed and we stick knowledge is in the broaches are needed to help better prepare them keeping in mind that our athletes will have access to the olympic size throughout the year allowing them to get better acquainted with the elements in sochi and while the russian government has been officially approving these necessary documents the ice has f