Nothing could stop the U.S. figure skating team. Not even JD Vance's motorcade.

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Alysa Liu and world champion dance team of Madison Chock and Evan Bates have the Americans leading the team event after day one.

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MILAN — The start of the women’s short program at the Olympic figure skating team event was drawing close Friday afternoon, but American star Alysa Liu couldn’t get to the Milano Skating Arena. She and her coach and choreographer were stuck on an official Olympic bus, blocked from the arena parking lot by the motorcade of Vice President JD Vance, who attended the team event.

“We almost didn’t make it,” Liu’s coach, Phillip DiGuglielmo, later said.

Liu, who appears to live in a perpetual state of controlled chaos and was running late because she hadn’t gathered all of her gear in time, handled the holdup better than DiGuglielmo and choreographer Massimo Scali, who still looked rattled at the end of the team event. Liu made it into her dress and onto the ice in time to finish second in the women’s short program just behind Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto. That was enough to help the United States finish the first of the event’s three days with a two-point lead over Japan and a three-point margin over Italy.