Olympics Live: Biden aide says boycott states US principles

BEIJING (AP) — President Joe Biden’s national security adviser says the United States “did not go around the world knocking on every country door” trying to organize a diplomatic boycott of Olympics. The U.S. did not send dignitaries to Beijing but is allowing American athletes to complete. Major U.S. allies like Britain, Australia and Canada followed suit, also citing human rights abuses by the Chinese government. But an array of world leaders did attend the opening ceremonies. Sullivan told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the Biden administration made “a statement of principle about what we, the United States, were going to do.” He says other nations “made a different decision.”