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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nPresident 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe president is not planning to attend the games. He will certainly be rooting for the athletes,\u201d Psaki\u00a0said<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There have been growing concerns over increasing COVID-19 cases in Japan as only 9% of the country is vaccinated, according to the\u00a0World Health Organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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, the <\/a>Associated Press reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Biden told Suga at the G7 summit earlier this month that he supported the Olympic games with appropriate public health precautions, according to the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is not the first instance where a sitting president has skipped the Olympics, according to the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Former President George W. Bush attended the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, while\u00a0former\u00a0President Barack Obama<\/a>\u00a0sent delegates to the 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2016\u00a0Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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,\u00a0Politico reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Japanese newspaper reported that First Lady Jill Biden will represent the U.S. in Tokyo, according to the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tokyo will allow up to 10,000\u00a0spectators,<\/a>\u00a0or 50% capacity, in\u00a0Olympic<\/a>\u00a0venues, according to a June 21 press release from the\u00a0International Olympic Committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Android Users, Click Here To Download The Free Press App<\/a> And Never Miss A Story. It\u2019s Free And Coming To Apple Users Soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Support journalism by clicking here to our gofundme<\/a> or sign up for our free newsl<\/a>etter by clicking here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 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 licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Harry Wilmerding 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. \u201cThe president is not planning to attend the games. He will certainly be rooting for the athletes,\u201d Psaki\u00a0said. \u201cWe will have a delegation from the United States […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1978,"featured_media":55252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,14828],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-worldnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tampafp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tampafp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tampafp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tampafp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tampafp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tampafp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tampafp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tampafp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tampafp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tampafp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}