Her chance at a medal took a huge hit.
Amber Glenn had her world come crashing down this week at the Olympics. The 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics are in full swing, and Tuesday was another busy day in Italy.
Figure skating at these Winter Olympics has been full of dramatic twists. And Tuesday, the first night of the women’s competition, was no different. All the US women qualified for Thursday’s medal event.
The “Blade Angels,” as they have been dubbed, began on Tuesday as the nation’s best hope for an individual medal in this event. Reigning world champion Alysa Liu stands in third place, behind Ami Nakai and Kaori Sakamoto of Japan.
Unfortunately, Amber Glenn is nowhere to be found. The figure skater recently became the first American woman in more than two decades to win a third consecutive US championship. Her talent cannot be denied, but most cannot get over her sexuality and her political stance.
In 2019, she came out as bisexual and pansexual. She has spoken out against the Trump administration over their treatment of the LGBTQ+ community, and was even forced to take a break from social media over the backlash she received.
Glenn proceeded to flex her team’s olympic gold medal from the figure skating team event to her haters on social media.
American figure skater Amber Glenn had a rough performance in the women’s singles short program at the Winter Olympics on Tuesday. One of the highly touted members of the US Blade Angels, Glenn was a medal contender in the women’s singles skating.
She landed a huge triple axel, which led into a triple-flip-triple toe loop. However, Glenn was just a little off and bailed out of the triple loop. She received no points as the double loop became an invalid element.
Amber Glenn lost seven or eight points with the bailout. Her tough performance in the women’s short program will likely keep her out of medal contention at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Glenn was emotional as she came off the ice, telling her coach, “I had it.”
She shared a post on her Instagram story in the early hours of Wednesday. “The world has ended for me many times and yet tomorrow still comes,” the post read. “Keep going.”
In the end, Amber Glenn scored a 67.39 and was in 13th place at the end of the run.
