Vice President Vance, second lady attend Winter Olympics opening ceremony

Vice President JD Vance and 2nd woman Usha Vance were spotted astatine the Winter Olympics opening ceremonial successful Milan, Italy, astatine San Siro connected Friday night.

The Milan Cortina Olympics were officially opening with a ceremonial celebrating the past and civilization of the country. The vice president and Usha Vance were seated adjacent Italian President Sergio Mattarella and International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry were introduced successful the stadium. Former IOC president Thomas Bach was besides seated adjacent them.

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JD Vance and his woman Usha applaud astatine the commencement of the Olympic opening ceremonial astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

The NBC broadcast concisely showed the Vances clapping for Mattarella and Coventry.

Vance was among those starring the American contingent to the Olympic Games successful Italy this year. He was spotted with Secretary of State Marco Rubio astatine the U.S. women’s crystal hockey crippled against the Czech Republic connected Thursday. The Americans won the game, 5-1.

It was a portion of a engaged travel for Vance.

Vice President JD Vance, center, attends the Olympic opening ceremonial astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026.  (Andreas Rentz/Pool Photo via AP)

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On Friday, helium started his time astatine the Milano Ice Skating Arena, watching the opening league of the three-day squad fig skating contention with Rubio and his family. He past headed to the Prefettura di Milano for a bilateral gathering with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

"In the tone of the Olympics friendship, contention — contention based connected rules — and conscionable coming unneurotic astir shared values, we’re very, precise thrilled to beryllium here, and we’ll person a large speech astir fig of topics," Vance told Meloni arsenic the property corps looked on.

Vice President JD Vance, center, and his woman Usha Vance be the fig skating crystal creation squad lawsuit astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

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He said helium had been excited to spell to the Olympics successful Milan "pretty overmuch since I became vice president."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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