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Biden administration considers ‘co-ordinated’ Beijing Olympics boycott – Sydney Morning Herald
The State Department made clear the US would expect to be joined by its allies if it were to boycott the games, scheduled for next February.
The US Olympic Committee has made clear it does not support a full boycott of the Beijing games.
While we would never want to minimise what is happening from a human rights perspective in China, we do not support an athlete boycott, US Olympic Committee President Susanne Lyons said last month.
We believe such boycotts have not been effective in the past, particularly in 1980.
Those boycotts only hurt athletes who have trained their entire lives for this opportunity to represent their country.
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