President Biden says his administration is considering a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
on Thursday urged the administration to boycott the Olympics, including keeping athletes from competing.for The New York Times, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, arguing for a diplomatic boycott of the Games, wrote that"it is increasingly clear that China, under the control of the Chinese Communist Party does not deserve an Olympic showcase."The International Olympic Committee has said that policing human rights records of host countries is out of its scope.
The U.S. led a full boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, barring athletes from participating. The Soviet Union retaliated in 1984, boycotting the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The last full boycott was in 1988, when North Korea and its allies did not attend theThe 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are scheduled to begin on Feb. 4 and only spectators from mainland China will be allowed to attend due to the Covid pandemic.
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