{"id":576317,"date":"2021-06-29T11:50:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=576317"},"modified":"2021-06-29T11:50:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T15:50:16","slug":"biden-to-skip-tokyo-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-skip-tokyo-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden To Skip Tokyo Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-to-skip-tokyo-olympics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=576317&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Biden-Olympics-Tokyo-scaled-e1624975512801.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>President Joe Biden will not travel to Tokyo for the 2021 Summer Olympics, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a press conference on Monday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe president is not planning to attend the games. He will certainly be rooting for the athletes,\u201d Psaki <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2021\/06\/28\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-june-28-2021\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>We will have a delegation from the United States as we have historically had, but we will continue to also convey the public health guidelines and guidance that we\u2019ve been delivering out there about only essential travel,\u201d Psaki said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There have been growing concerns over increasing COVID-19 cases in Japan as only 9% of the country is vaccinated, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/covid19.who.int\/region\/wpro\/country\/jp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Health Organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.298181818182\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">President Biden won\u2019t attend the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, but a U.S. delegation will go, the White House said Monday. \u201cHe will certainly be rooting for the athletes,\u201d press secretary Jen Psaki said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/euBKObpMrF\">https:\/\/t.co\/euBKObpMrF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WSJ Politics (@WSJPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJPolitics\/status\/1409625606531260420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/11\/joe-biden-macron-trudeau-merkel-suga-boris-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga<\/a> said he intended to invite Biden to the Olympic Games during his visit to the U.S. in April, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-yoshihide-suga-tokyo-coronavirus-pandemic-japan-b998746eb6780744c42e4ec9696a07f5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the <\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-yoshihide-suga-tokyo-coronavirus-pandemic-japan-b998746eb6780744c42e4ec9696a07f5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Associated Press reported<\/span><\/a><span>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/24\/alcohol-banned-olympics-tokyo-coronvirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Alcohol Is Banned From The Olympics In Tokyo)<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Biden told Suga at the G7 summit earlier this month that he supported the Olympic games with appropriate public health precautions, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/president-biden-wont-attend-tokyo-olympics-11624905678\"><span>Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span>This is not the first instance where a sitting president has skipped the Olympics, according to the Wall Street Journal<\/span><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Former President George W. Bush attended the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/sochi\/2013\/12\/17\/white-house-sochi-olympics-delegation-to-include-gay-athlete\/4051581\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">former <\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/olympics\/sochi\/2013\/12\/17\/white-house-sochi-olympics-delegation-to-include-gay-athlete\/4051581\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>President Barack Obama<\/span><\/a><span> sent delegates to the 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/28\/president-biden-is-not-planning-to-attend-tokyo-olympics-496752\"><span>Olympics<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Former President Donald Trump sent former Vice President Mike Pence and former Second Lady Karen Pence to represent the United States at the 2018 opening ceremony in South Korea, while Ivanka Trump attended the closing ceremony, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/28\/president-biden-is-not-planning-to-attend-tokyo-olympics-496752\"><span>Politico reported<\/span><\/a><span>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A Japanese newspaper reported that First Lady Jill Biden will represent the U.S. in Tokyo, according to the Wall Street Journal.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Jill Biden\u2019s press secretary, Michael LaRosa, did not confirm if she will represent the U.S. but said she is \u201cassessing the feasibility and waiting for the naming of the presidential delegation,\u201d according to the Wall Street Journal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tokyo will allow up to 10,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/22\/report-cheering-banned-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spectators,<\/a> or 50% capacity, in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/24\/emperor-yasuhiko-naruhito-worried-covid-tokyo-olympics-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olympic<\/a> venues, according to a June 21 press release from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/ioc\/news\/joint-statement-on-spectator-capacities-at-the-olympic-games-tokyo-2020\"><span>International Olympic Committee<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden will not travel to Tokyo for the 2021 Summer Olympics, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in a press conference on Monday.\u00a0\u201cThe president is not planning &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1891880,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1891880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}