American figure skater Amber Glenn emotional after costly mistake during Olympic outing

American fig skater Amber Glenn, 1 3rd of the trio known arsenic the "Blade Angels," had a unsmooth show successful the women’s singles abbreviated programme astatine the Winter Olympics connected Tuesday.

Glenn, three-time reigning U.S. champion, was successful the premix for a medal until the precise extremity of her routine. She landed a immense triple axel, which led into a triple-flip-triple toed loop. However, Glenn was conscionable a small disconnected kilter and bailed retired of the triple loop.

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Amber Glenn of the United States competes during the women's abbreviated programme fig skating astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026.  (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

She received nary points arsenic the treble loop became an invalid element. She mislaid 7 oregon 8 points with the bailout and nixed her chances of reaching the medal podium erstwhile the escaped skate contention ends connected Thursday.

Glenn was affectional arsenic she came disconnected the ice, telling her coach, "I had it."

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Amber Glenn of the United States reacts to her people aft competing successful the women's abbreviated programme successful fig skating astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026.  (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

She scored a 67.39 and was successful 13th spot astatine the extremity of the run. She tried to support her caput up successful a societal media post.

"The satellite has ended for maine galore times and yet time inactive comes," she wrote Wednesday successful an Instagram station with a representation of a smiling dog. "Keep going."

Glenn had a unsmooth outing during the squad lawsuit earlier successful the Olympics arsenic well. She finished 3rd successful the women’s singles radical down Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto and Georgia’s Anastasiia Gubanova. Luckily, Ilia Malinin blew the contention distant successful the men’s singles and the U.S. picked up a golden medal.

Amber Glenn of United States reacts aft her show during the abbreviated programme connected Feb. 17, 2026.  (REUTERS/Yara Nardi)

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In the women’s singles competition, Alysa Liu represents the champion accidental the U.S. has astatine making the podium. She ended the time successful 3rd spot down 2 Japanese stars, Sakamoto and Ami Nakai.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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