The exercise is traditional. A ritual. As after each edition of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, summer and winter, the President of the United States received Team USA at the White House. More than 400 American Olympic and Paralympic athletes from the Paris 2024 Games traveled to Washington on Monday, September 30, to meet Joe Biden. The future former American president explained, in his speech delivered on the White House lawn, that he had been " prevented »to travel to the French capital himself. "My team members had the television on to watch you while I tried to get national security information, he said. But in all fairness, I also had the television on in the Oval Office.» Team USA took first place in the Olympic medal standings (126 medals), before placing third in the Paralympic Games (105 medals). After calling the United States the " greatest sporting nation in world history", and suggested that Olympic and Paralympic athletes represented " the best of America", Joe Biden has promised to attend the Los Angeles Games in 2028 as a spectator. "I will no longer be president, they will not be able to stop me from going there", he joked in his closing speech.
