this is general shepperd thanks a lot for being with us today my pleasure right so three or so ago till the opening of two thousand and fourteen in sochi you said in one of your recent interviews that time is your main challenge how ready are you what does this mean that maybe you're afraid that you're not going to be done on time you wrote we just in the middle for wonderful journey to deliver the most in a way to ever olympic and paralympic games which will celebrate this period when you more than russia through sustainable positive changes and which in turn will inspire the world and we can all weakness now really positive changes in the region i can tell you that three years of the games were in the good shape way deliver and everything within budget and on time so that russia will be prepared for the games at the highest possible level so you have test competitions going on in february on the slopes in sochi how do you think they're going to be assessed the european cup will be the first international exam . with the presence of international olympic committee and i know that. from