This room is Beijing, it maybe simulated at Portsmouth university, but with temperature of 31 degrees and humidity at 70 thermal chamber is giving athletes a taste what they will face in a few month.
We are certainly sweating in here, among all the talk about Beijing is been about pollution problem, for many of the athletes, it's actually the humidity that cause them the increasing concern, and also that's where the British hope to have a competitive advantage.
Among 20 different teams have been tested in here, triathletes, athletes, even the shooting team, all trying to get an edge no matter how tiny an advantage may give them.
You are dealing with such small margins of success, if I tell you, at the last Olympics, we won four Olympic goals in 4 by 100 meters relay, man's. We won the 800 meters with female track event, lead 1000 meters cycling, and the coxless forwards rowing, and winning margin when add together whole of events is less they 0.2s, you can see that something like not being prepared perform a heat easily, make a deterioration performance, make a differenct between gold and silver medal, and also a gold medal and absolutel nothing or whatsoever.
So here, they are testing cycling halmets, trying to work out which designing better if cooling down the cyclists hats.
Ok, for example, we guess we are here, this is a key to measure how much sweat you have been secreted.
The push's team is convinced not only training and diet which their athletes need to pay attention to, but how the heat affect performance. So these help the scientist see deep body temperature. That thermometer swallowed by the athletes sending heat information back to computers, to be monitored.
In the past, these are a bit bigger, they weren't disposable, and so you have to go to retrieve them. so the nice thing about the advancement and technology is ..uh.it becomes smaller, and because it becomes smaller, it becomes cheaper, and we can get rid of it afterwards without we have to go find it.
Big business and science hope they can help Britain increase that metal holl, but other country are watching closely. Many of the innovations going into Beijing have been kept secret, techonology is the legal and possibily crucial advantage that could push athletes over the finishing line first.