The leader of the U.S. Olympic Committee says the plan is to take a team to the Pyeongchang Games "unless it's legally or physically impossible." Ambassador Nikki Haley and White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders took the USOC leadership by surprise, but chalked it up to a miscommunication. Technically, the decision about whether to participate in the Olympics rests with the USOC and the individual athletes. The USOC has consistently said the tension in the Koreas won't stop it from fielding a full U.S. team. Asked who does get the final say in the decision, Blackmun replied: "I'll leave that to the constitutional scholars, but we're going to bring a team to Pyeongchang unless it's legally or physically impossible to do that.

Source: ABC News December 08, 2017 20:09 UTC