Winter Olympics protests erupt in Milan over Israel and ICE as police deploy tear gas and chaos spills from the streets into the Games. Right, so The Winter Olympics has barely started in Milan and it’s already not about sport, because the people running this show have tried to sell you an “apolitical” Olympics while doing politics right in your face and then acting shocked when the public answers back. You’ve got students and activists in the streets chanting “ICE out”, you’ve got police using tear gas and water cannon near venues, you’ve got boos inside the stadium for Israel and for JD Vance on the big screens, and you’ve got Giorgia Meloni’s government doing what governments always do when their glossy spectacle starts slipping, trying to turn a legitimacy problem into a public order problem. And here’s the part nobody wants to admit out loud ...