{"id":278090,"date":"2026-02-07T00:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/278090\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T00:32:12","slug":"crowd-boos-israeli-athletes-at-milan-games-opening-ceremony-over-gaza-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/278090\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowd boos Israeli athletes at Milan Games opening ceremony over Gaza genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Israel&#8217;s Olympic team has walked into the stadium during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony to a smattering of boos at what had otherwise been an upbeat and festive celebration of the global winter sports extravaganza.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The four-person Israeli delegation, waving the country&#8217;s flag and smiling, marched into the San Siro stadium during the parade of participating countries on Friday with the boos quickly drowned out by the loud soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">In Cortina d&#8217;Ampezzo, where a simultaneous parade was held for competitors located in the mountain cluster, Israel&#8217;s athletes earned some cheers, while in Predazzo, site of the ski jumping venue, there were some boos heard.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Israeli athletes said prior to the opening ceremony they were prepared for a potentially hostile reception following Israel\u2019s genocide in besieged Gaza. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Olympic team has walked into the stadium during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-278090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}