boycott. the olympic committee reported 21 new covid cases. now they have 308 since beijing started the closed loop bubble. back here in the u.s. you re looking at a live picture now of the white house all lit up in red, white and blue to cheer team u.s.a. the state department thursday publicly defended the right of u.s. athletes to speak out against human rights abuses in china despite olympic committee rules prohibiting any protests. just a short time ago russian president vladimir putin and the chinese leader xi jinping meeting in person at a time of high tension with the west. cnn s ivan watson joins us live from hong kong this morning. ivan, this will be an olympics like no other. reporter: yeah. you know, i m down here in hong kong, but my colleagues up in beijing, some of whom have covered other olympiads, say the atmosphere is different. for example, in beijing those
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won it for the last six olympiads. they had a tremendous season. it didn t work on the day. they missed out by a tiny margin. they had steering problems, as people will have seen. they came forth. the war of words are not terribly concerned about. i am concerned about how the athletes will react to the fourth place, how we can support them through that disappointment. it is undoubtedly disappointing. and, again. being top of the medal table as we have been for many years, obviously that has not worked out this time, but we will go through to paris and we will be back. we have got a very strong team, a very good coaching team. and we will take the lessons from this olympic games and implement them going forward. the british rowing chief coach, juergen rob lowe, stepped down. do you think it was a mistake in hindsight to let him go at that point?
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