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Put away your Wii: the next generation of sport simulators could let you breathe the air of Whistler, Sochi Russia, or even Mount Everest for your next ski down the slopes.

For elite athletes, breathing unfamiliar air while competing on foreign soil is one of the great frightening unknowns.

Now, a portable breath-monitoring-and-manipulation device could reveal whether such athletes will thrive or struggle in extreme environments halfway around the world.

Once connected to an athlete, the ETF mimics air conditions in extreme environments by delivering various levels of nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide in and out of a subject's lungs like a retreating and advancing tidal wave, varying the composition and availability of air.

To put competitors on the top of a mountain while they're still in a lab, a computer workstation operates a valve control system and gas-filled bottles manipulate the volume and composition of air a person breathes in and out.

Read the full story at: ctvolympics.ca

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