they insist they re prepared to protect the players, the fans as well as the games image. a part of the game plan. reporter: these men are not elite athletes. they re all amateur ice hockey players. they re in sochi, russia s olympic city, so they get a police escort. and because they re playing in sochi s new olympic venue, the bolshoi ice dome, every bus is skand and everyone is screened as if they were boarding an international flight. but it s even more thorough. everyone gets a pat-down. journalists also get the full treatment. all of this for an amateur hockey match. the russian authorities say proves what they ve been saying all along, that they ve been taking security very seriously in this city long before the boston attack. russia is racing to finish its new olympic venues by the black sea and in the mountains above sochi. like all other host countries, its other priority is security,