The U.S. Olympic committee stated it means to send a full delegation of Olympic as well as Paralympic athletes to Pyeongchang, South Korea, calling recent comments from the Trump administration about potentially holding the U.S. team back a “miscommunication.”
Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, suggested earlier this week that it was an “open question” whether the united states would send its athletes to the winter season games because of the continuous tensions with neighboring North Korea. Later, White home spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders stated during a press rundown that “no official decision has been made” on the U.S. team’s participation.
In a press seminar complying with a USOC board satisfying on Friday, CEO Scott Blackmun stated the USOC was “a bit bit surprised” by the comments however that “there was some miscommunication there rather than anything that was meant to be substantial” in the administration’s comments. “We are going to take a team to Pyeongchang unless it’s physically impossible or lawfully impossible to do that,” he said.
In other news, Blackmun stated the USOC is still checking out a prospective quote to hold a future Olympic as well as Paralympic winter season Games, however added that 2030 may be much more reasonable than 2026, the next event open for bids. “In all candor, I believe we’re leaning much more in the 2030 direction,” he said. “We haven’t made any type of formal decisions.”
Salt Lake City, Denver as well as Reno/Tahoe have all expressed rate of interest in a prospective quote for 2026, although agreements that would requirement to be reached on advertising as well as sponsorship with the Los Angeles effort to hold the 2028 Olympic summertime games may complicate that timeline. Blackmun stated the USOC has been in dialogue with each city as well as region thinking about the winter season Games. “We’re extremely thrilled about the prospects of holding however there’s nothing concrete to report in the method of timing,” he said.
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