too toxic to even wash your face. they have dozens and dozens of rooms not ready for journalists or whoever. it is absolutely an embarrassment. reporter: and now officials are scrambling to adjust the slopestyle snowboarding course after several athletes got hurt. two-time olympic snowboarding gold medallist, shaun white, says he is pulling out of the event because the risk of injury is not worth the risk to his other goals. reporter: yesterday billie jean king said her mother was sick and she will not be able to attend the ceremonies. john and marci? karen, thank you. even though the games opening ceremony isn t until tomorrow, the competition is under way. before the day is out, there will be mens and pairs figure skating in the new team competition and qualifying in the women s freestyle skiing moguls event. women will also be qualifying in the new slopestyle snowboard competition and the first
the world. you can follow all the specifics in one place, cnn.com/olympics. let s zoom into the screen here. as soon as you get there, you re going to see all sorts of information about the winter games and we hook you up to a lot of the stories. let me take you first to this area right here, talking about olympians to watch. what i like about this is it starts off with a couple you ve probably heard of, apolo anton ohno, you know of him, lindsey vonn, but you main know about some of these people. a figure skater out of south korea and jump over here, sidney crosby, if you follow sports illustrated, you might know about him, canada posting a lot of their hopes for ice hockey on his shoulders. speaking of sports illustrated, a lot of you may not realize, sports illustrated s website is part of ours, cnn.com. so when you re at cnn.com/olympics, you ll get stories from sports illustrated weather a lot of specifics including some pretty amazing shots of the u.s. olympic snowboardin