around due to all the concerns? reporter: there s not a lot of bustle. we went down the venues a few hours ago. not that many people. particularly international fans. i talked to one tour operator at the moment i have more family members of athletes coming with me than fans. five times as many. quite the wrong proportion. he had 1,000 tickets allocated for american fans that simply weren t being bought. $200,000 worth. as he just said it recently is still possible to buy those opening ceremony tickets, $1500 a piece just three hours before the games. quite possibly this isn t the full picture because we don t know what the final numbers are. potentially 10,000 but still those security warnings could be having an impact on american attendance here. the competition in sochi already under way, snowboard slopestyle qualifying runs and team figure skating making their debut on