Share Source: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel On Monday, several Republican United States senators penned a letter to the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) urging them to forbid American athletes from acquiring or utilizing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) digital currency payment, also known as “digital yuan,” throughout the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Roger Wicker (R-MS), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) were the three senators who signed the letter to Susanne Lyons, board chair of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee. “We write to express our concerns with the communist Chinese government’s plans to officially launch the Digital Currency Electronic Payment, commonly referred to as the digital yuan, prior to the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022,” the letter states. “Specifically, we urge the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) to forbid American athletes from receiving or using digital yuan during the Beijing Olympics.”