{"id":2360,"date":"2026-02-17T17:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:57:32","slug":"ex-espn-star-reveals-why-she-felt-ill-sitting-next-to-jd-vance-at-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=2360","title":{"rendered":"Ex-ESPN star reveals why she felt \u2018ill\u2019 sitting next to JD Vance at Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"449\">Former ESPN journalist <strong data-start=\"100\" data-end=\"141\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Sarah Spain<\/span><\/span><\/strong> said she felt \u201cill\u201d after unexpectedly sitting near U.S. Vice President <strong data-start=\"214\" data-end=\"255\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">JD Vance<\/span><\/span><\/strong> at the Winter Olympics earlier this month. Speaking on her podcast <em data-start=\"323\" data-end=\"362\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Good Game With Sarah Spain<\/span><\/span><\/em>, she described the moment Vance and heavy security arrived during a USA hockey game.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"451\" data-end=\"665\">Spain said the sudden presence of Secret Service agents blocked her view and disrupted the experience. She also criticized Vance personally, saying seeing him made her feel physically uncomfortable and \u201cspooked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"667\" data-end=\"871\">The incident followed the opening ceremony, where Vance and his wife were shown on camera and reportedly met with a mix of boos and applause. Despite the distraction, Team USA went on to win their game.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"873\" data-end=\"1011\">Vance, who led the U.S. delegation, had earlier encouraged athletes to enjoy the Games and said the entire country was rooting for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former ESPN journalist Sarah Spain said she felt \u201cill\u201d after unexpectedly sitting near U.S. Vice President JD Vance at the Winter Olympics earlier this month. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/?p=2360\" title=\"Ex-ESPN star reveals why she felt \u2018ill\u2019 sitting next to JD Vance at Winter Olympics\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralspotlight26.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}