Overview
- Portions of the San Siro crowd booed Vice President JD Vance during the Milan–Cortina 2026 Opening Ceremony, a reaction clearly heard on international broadcasts and by reporters on site.
- NBC said it did not edit crowd noise in its presentation and pointed viewers to both the live feed and the primetime replay of the ceremony on Peacock.
- Media analyses and side-by-side clips indicate NBC’s tape-delayed primetime replay featured a louder music mix when Vance appeared, which made the jeers harder to hear compared with other feeds.
- IOC spokesperson Mark Adams urged fair play when addressing the incident and noted that the U.S. team received strong cheers.
- EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas described the boos as an expression of European pride, and Vance was later booed again as he left a U.S. women’s hockey game in Milan.