With roughly two months to go before athletes from around the world converge on Beijing to compete in the 2022 Winter Olympics, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed earlier reports that the Biden administration will engage in a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Games.

Psaki explained that the Biden administration “will not send any diplomatic or official representation” to Beijing for the Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games “given the PRC’s ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses” that Psaki called “egregious.”

A diplomatic boycott means that American athletes can still compete in Beijing, but no official U.S. delegation will attend the games. “The athletes on Team USA have our full support,” said Psaki, “we’ll be behind them 100 percent as we cheer them on from home,” but the Biden administration “will not be contributing to the fanfare of the games.”