About 600 members of the United States Congress were honored by President Joe Biden. On Wednesday, the White House hosted one of, if not the biggest, gatherings of Team USA participants from the Tokyo and Beijing Olympics.

“You’ve been through a lot,” Biden said in an address on the South Lawn, standing in front of the participants and mentioning the coronavirus outbreak that forced the Summer Games to be postponed by a year.

Biden, who was vice president for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, remarked that his family’s favorite part of the games was watching the competitors’ families respond.

Biden tells to Paralympic basketball players not to jump while taking pictures 🙄 pic.twitter.com/a3zzmSnQcp

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“We discovered how large, diverse, and talented this country is,” he remarked. “In America, there are no quitters.” You’re the poster child for it.”

Later on, though, things became tense as Olympian Elana Meyers Taylor lauded wheelchair player Matt Scott during an address to the audience. Joe Biden told Taylor not to jump while the group shot was being taken, which featured other Olympic and Paralympic competitors, including Scott and several of his fellow wheelchair paralympics.

The embarrassing incident was reminiscent of another one from March, when Biden told troops of the 82nd Airborne Division not to leap from the second to the first floor, where he was conducting his address.

Biden praised numerous state legislators in the crowd at the opening of his comments. When Biden met Chuck Graham, a Green Meadows state legislator, he told him to “stand up Chuck, let ’em see ya.”

Graham, however, who is in a wheelchair, is unable to rise, which Biden promptly noted.

“What am I talking about, God love you,” Biden added. “You can tell I’m new,” he joked, before encouraging the audience to rise in support of Graham.