“The athletes on Team USA have our full support,” Psaki added.” We will be behind them 100% as we cheer them on from home.”
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Sending government officials to the Olympics is usually the norm for the United States. Former President George W. Bush attended the 2008 Olympic Summer Games that were also held in Beijing, for example, and first lady Jill Biden attended the delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics last summer.
Prior to the White House announcement on Monday, China said that a U.S. diplomatic boycott would be “outright political provocation,” and threatened to take “firm countermeasures” if the U.S. staged a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Games.