Key Highlights
- It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hiddenThe modern Olympics sell themselves on a simple premise: the whole world, watching the same moment, at the same time.
- On Friday night in Milan, that illusion fractured in real time. When Team USA entered the San Siro during the parade of nations, the speed skater Erin Jackson led the delegation into a wall of cheers.
- Moments later, when cameras cut to US vice-president JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance, large sections of the crowd responded with boos.
- Not subtle ones, but audible and sustained ones.
- Canadian viewers heard them.
