IOC experts began work in Sochi with a request not to disturb them

In Sochi, on Monday, the appraisal commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) began work in order to inspect the course of training of the Black Sea resort for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, which are also claimed by Korean Pyeongchang and Austrian Salzburg.

IOC experts will spend five days in Sochi-from February 19 to 23, during which they will appreciate the chances of the Russian resort city to the right to be called the capital of the 2014 winter games . Today, delegates will hold a closed work session and will study the documentation, and on February 20 the official part of the inspection will begin.

As ITAR-TASS reports, the members of the commission asked the organizers on February 19 "not to disturb them and not to go to them if possible."

On the eve of the arrival of experts of the IOC Sochi with the inspection, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development German Gref visited, according to which, the Russian city city city is ready to accept high guests. “In general, the city is ready for a presentation,” Gref said.

The main trump card of the Sochi application is the compactness of the placement of all Olympic objects. From the Imereta Valley, where it is planned to place the ice palace and the Olympic village, the electric train will bring to the center of Sochi in 20 minutes. With ski and sanitary-beast tracks located in the Red Polyana, the Valley will connect the monorail. However, if there is already a railway, then the monorail will be paved only if Sochi is selected by the capital of the Olympic Games.

- Gref causes the main fears of Gref. True, people and roads too
- representatives of the government will personally participate in the presentation of the project
- The choice between Sochi, Pyeongchang and Salzburg will be made in early July
- After Sochi, experts will go to Salzburg

Accompanied by the Krasnodar governor Alexander Tkachev, German Gref drove through all the sites allotted for the Olympics, trying to evaluate that the high guests could not like. Herman Gref turned out to be a relatively liberal appraiser - he personally liked almost everything, writes "News Time" .

The directors of hotels and sanatoriums were given an instruction to prepare renovated rooms for the show, as well as order prospectus, price lists and menu of bars and restaurants in two languages-Russian and English in the printing house. The heads of the catering sector and the same directors of the hotels are responsible for organizing English personnel training courses. In total, 475 employees of the service sector should undergo training and retraining, not counting the Sochi police officers who also study English. The leadership of the city Internal Affairs Directorate ordered a phrasebook for its employees, consisting of 300 phrases and proposals. Using a pocket hint, the Sochi guards will be able to not only call for order in English (“You violate public order! I ask you to stop!”), But also transfer to Russian, for example, the next request of the foreigner: “There is no toilet paper, bring one roll, please.” In test mode, the new terminal of the Sochi airport, which will receive Olympic inspectors, began to function, Kommersant notes.

The minister appeared not only as an expert on economic strategy, but also as a designer, stylist and even showman, Izvestia note. “I was greeted by the children at the airport in the jackets of the Olympic: nothing still, but the green ones - they look somehow gloomy. It would be more fun,” the minister gave instructions.

“Here write the name of the river, here put the badge,” - this is already about the layouts. It was evident that the minister came with the inspection not for the box. “So the barbarians are being built, you need normal snow cleaning machines, not bulldozers,” Gref was indignant, examining the farthest cordon of the psp, where the sleigh -beobsle route will be located.

Gref is the main concerns of Gref

Gref is the main concerns of Gref. As you know, it was the weather factor that was the only reason that prevented Soviet athletes from winning the next gold medal. And only he, the minister believes, can persuade the opinion of the commission in favor of our competitors. “I urge all believers to pray for the fact that during the visit of the commission to Sochi there are frost and the sun,” Gref turned to reporters. “Yes, and unbelievers too.”

All other shortcomings, according to him, are "grinding." As always in Russia, there are two problems. One of them, as it is easy to guess, is the road. On the cordon, the Pig, where it is planned to place the mountain Olympic village, you can only drive in a jeep along the path excavated by tractors.

“Who made the road? I want to explain to him in good Russian. This is barbarism. If we remove the roads so, then we are doing this and do this.“ German Oskarovich, ”the organizers answered,“ promise that the snow will go. Maybe he was stuffing all the dirt? "The minister depicted a sharp desire to kill the respondent on his face, the " Vedomosti " write. Then the builders promised that by today all the roads would be converted. Having settled the issue with the roads, Gref went to a temporary pavilion where the presentation was to be held. So the second problem was manifested - those who prepared visual agitation. The commission can look at the commission only on the picturesque nature, the layouts of future Olympic objects are of particular importance.

In the middle of the pavilion stood a small Mount's layout made of plexiglass. The layout looked like a frozen spit. From the window a view of the mountains and a bunch of dirt, valezhnik and sawdust piled by the very windows of the pavilion opened.

The minister kept his temper. The mud ordered to remove, and even ordered to call the head of the company "Interros" to Vladimir Potanin, they say whether he could organize the construction of a new layout instead of an organized -glass spit on the remaining two days.

In general, all the initial layouts had to be redeemed in a hurry, and there are fears whether they will have time to finish everything by the time when the assessment commission will get to look at them. However, time remains. All today the commission will work with documents behind closed doors and only tomorrow will go to get acquainted with objects and places where the absent Olympic sports facilities will be built so far.

Representatives of the government will personally participate in the presentation of the project

Representatives of the Russian government will personally participate in the presentation of the Sochi project for the right to become the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. To this end, in addition to Gref, the Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov, the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Yuri Trutnev and Minister of Transport Igor Levitin, will arrive in Sochi.

According to the Sochi administration, more than eighty solemn and sporting events have been timed to the visit of the IOC commission. Among them, for example, the ice show of the Olympic figure skating champions will be attended by Evgeny Plushenko, Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov, Tatyana Totmyanina and Maxim Marinin and Irina Slutskaya, the final of the Russian Culture, the festival of cultures of the peoples of the Ethno-Sochi, performances of art masters and much more, RIA Novosti reports.

The head of the MECHT also noted that a conciliation meeting was already held with representatives of environmental organizations, during which all the concern of ecologists were removed. " "The procedure for conducting environmental examinations has been determined and the system of interaction with public organizations has been developed," Gref said.

“In general, we are all well and efficiently prepared. We can talk about natural advantages (compared to competitors). Here, according to experts, we have good advantages,” the minister continued. He noted that the landscape of Krasnaya Polyana allows you to organize skiing, biathlon, and skiing, and sanitary-bobslene routes in one place.

The head of the MECTR recalled that the total financing of the FCP for the development of Sochi is about 320 billion rubles until 2014, including 196 billion rubles from the federal budget.

According to the minister, there are already investors for each of the FCP objects. “So far, all investors are Russian,” Gref said.

The choice between Sochi, Pyeongchang and Salzburg will be made in early July

The assessment commission includes 13 people, headed by Vice President of the IOC Tikharu Igay. Candidate cities are evaluated by fourteen basic parameters, which include, for example, issues of transport, finance, security, communications, accommodation of athletes, journalists and fans, as well as environmental protection and climatic features of the region. Of course, an important point is the inspection of the current and under construction sports arenas, as well as the objects of the future Olympic village.

Before the publication of the report, to understand how much the commission liked this or that application, it is not easy. Inspectors are forbidden to give direct grades to what they see, and in general they prefer to refrain from detailed comments, usually limited to standard compliments and only sometimes indicating the detected shortcomings. So it was during the visit of the Olympic inspectors to Pyeongchang on February 17. At the final press conference, Tikharu Igai nevertheless allowed himself to make one remark addressed to the local application committee, saying that "the road to the high of giant slalom should be replaced." This alone can significantly lower the quotes of the Korean city.

The results of the visit of the assessment commission will be made public not earlier than one month before the capital of the 2014 Olympics is named. The choice between Sochi, Pyeongchang and Salzburg will be made during the 119th session of the IOC, which will be held in Guatemala on July 4-9 of this year.

Earlier, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Zhukov stated that Sochi was ready to receive the assessment commission of the IOC. He clarified that the members of the commission will demonstrate the entire ideology of the Olympic Games, already ready Olympic objects, as well as projects of future sports facilities. While these are plastic tents between the picturesque mountains. Inside the tents you can see the layouts of future ski slopes, the ice palace, hotels and lifts, as well as thousands of other structures necessary for holding the Olympics.

After Sochi, experts will go to Salzburg

Before arriving in Sochi, members of the commission from February 14 to 17 had already visited Pyeongchang. At the final press conference, after meeting with the Korean Candidate city, the chairman of the commission Tikharu Igai noted the compactness of the location of sports grounds in Pyeongchang, the support of the idea from the government and the enthusiasm of the Korean people. At the same time, he drew attention to a number of weaknesses - for example, the need to complete the construction of roads to a number of facilities.

The last inspection of the assessment commission will be Salzburg, where the IOC inspection will visit from March 14 to 17. The exact dates of the 2014 games (from February 7 to February 23) are already known, thus, of the three applicants, only Salzburg will adopt the IOC commission in the deadline of the 2014 Olympics.

It is curious that both Pyeongchang and Salzburg claimed the right to hold the 2010 Winter Olympiad, which, in the end, went to the Canadian Vancouver. During the pre-Olympic race-2010, the Austrian application left the distance already in the first round, where the scattering of the alleged Olympic objects, which were not only in Salzburg, but also in neighboring Kitzbuel, St. Johanna and Ramzau, played against it. The Austrians prepared a more compact plan for the 2014 Games, but they will not succeed in holding all the competitions in Salzburg and its environs now. So, they intend to use a sanitary-beobsle route in Shonau, which is located in neighboring Germany during the games.

The Korean application four years ago reached the final, losing to Vancouver only three votes. She has many advantages, including political: the united team of South and North Korea can act at the home Olympics. Do not forget that Pyeongchang will receive sufficient experience in holding the largest winter competitions before the 2014 games: the Korean resort will only hold three world championships in 2009 - on snowboarding, biathlon and kerling among female teams.

Recall that candidates for the right to accept the 2014 Olympics at the initial stage were the Spanish hack, Kazakhstan Alma-Ata, Bulgarian Sofia and Georgian Borjomi. However, their applications were not fully satisfied with the IOC, whose executive committee opted for the Russian-Austrian-Korean three on June 22, 2006.