After using this alternate reality type of tool in the Eurovision Song Contest to great shame, IOC organisers tried to lie to the public but this time on a global scale. Unfortunately all the live commentators were talking about the booing whilst it sounded like cheering, until JD Vance appeared and the technology was unable to compensate any longer. There are now Americans who think their local news channels are censoring for them. Why do the organisers feel the need to lie to the public about the reception their audience is giving? It’s patronising and dishonest.
[…] In an unmistakable sign of Europe’s rapidly dimming view on America, the U.S. delegation entered the San Siro stadium here on Friday night to a chorus of boos and disapproving whistles from the international crowd of more than 65,000. The jeering only intensified when Vice President JD Vance appeared on the big screen during Team USA’s arrival.
The only other team to receive similar treatment was Israel.
Olympic organizers had braced for the possibility of anti-American sentiment inside the stadium. Small protests had already cropped up on the streets of Milan against the planned presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the city. Asked before the Games on how the Americans might be received, IOC president Kirsty Coventry said she hoped that the occasion would be “seen by everyone as an opportunity to be respectful.”
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Friday’s ceremony wasn’t, however, an event that brought every Olympic athlete together.
For the first time, the official curtain-raising was held across four disparate venues, from the stadium on the edge of Milan to the ski town of Cortina in the Dolomite mountains to smaller sites in Livigno and Predazzo. That meant only part of the 232-strong U.S. delegation heard the Milanese reaction.
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And if anyone thought that this might be a sign of Italy’s distaste for North America at large, the locals made it clear that their beef was specifically with the U.S.
The Italians reserved some of the loudest cheers of the night for Mexico and Canada.
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Source: Team USA, Vance Booed in Frosty Reception at Italy’s Winter Olympics
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