Athletes got cheers at Friday’s 2026 Olympics opening ceremony in Milan, Italy, and U.S. Vice President JD Vance got jeers. The booing wasn’t as audible on NBC’s coverage of the ceremony as it was in the coverage aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s CBC network, Entertainment Weekly reported. “There’s the vice president, JD Vance, and his wife Usha,” CBC News chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault said as a camera angle showed the Vances in the stands at San Siro stadium, as heard in an X clip. Not a long shot of him.”JD Vance gets booed inside the San Siro in Milan. And the vice president also got heckled by protestors as he met National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., in August 2025, according to BBC News.
Source: CBC News February 07, 2026 22:01 UTC