LPGA legend shares her feelings about US women's Olympic wins: 'Gets me really emotional'

The United States came distant with 33 full medals astatine the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, and galore came from the pistillate athletes who showed retired successful Italy this month. 

There were 17 medals won by the U.S. pistillate athletes, including 8 of the 12 golden medals.

As galore Americans enjoyed watching the events astatine home, LPGA Tour fable Michelle Wie West was successful Milan watching the U.S. scope the podium successful respective events. 

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Michelle Wie attends Netflix's "Happy Gilmore 2" New York Premiere astatine Jazz astatine Lincoln Center connected July 21, 2025, successful New York City.  (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

"I had the grant to beryllium successful Milan with Nike and got to spot immoderate Winter Olympic Games for the archetypal clip successful person. It’s astonishing to spot each these competitors," she told Fox News Digital successful a caller interview. "Got to spot [silver medalist] Chloe [Kim] bash her halfpipe, and that was incredible. 

"Women’s hockey, I mean, incredible. I got to spell to the archetypal game, and it was conscionable lights out."

From Mia Manganello successful velocity skating, to Alysa Liu’s captivating golden medal successful fig skating, Wie West admitted the Olympics made her a spot affectional seeing the athletes execute their dreams.

"This full Winter Olympics play has been truthful — I deliberation each Olympic play is truthful uplifting," she said. "But this 1 successful peculiar was truthful inspiring, and it feels similar the pistillate athletes truly knocked it retired of the park.

"I consciousness similar each Olympics gets maine truly emotional. I tin spot athletes execute their dreams and it’s truthful cool. It was truly chill to spot it successful person."

Gold medalist Alysa Liu of Team United States poses for a photograph during the medal ceremonial for the Women's Single Skating connected time thirteen of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Ice Skating Arena connected Feb. 19, 2026 successful Milan, Italy.  (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Wie West besides added that Lindsey Vonn’s "heartbreaking" crash, aft competing done a torn ACL, was hard to see. However, "seeing her travel up until that infinitesimal and adjacent afterwards has been truthful inspiring to me."

Breanna Stewart, a three-time golden medalist with Team USA women’s basketball, shared Wie West’s sentiments astir seeing American occurrence overseas. 

"I deliberation determination were truthful galore events I truly learned a batch about, whether it was bobsledding, oregon curling, oregon watching hockey," she said. "Just wanting to cheer connected the USA successful immoderate lawsuit they were doing, and spot the pridefulness and passionateness the athletes were having whenever they stepped up to vie with their sport."

LPGA subordinate Michelle Wie West plays her changeable from the 14th tee during the Golden Bear Pro-Am anterior to the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday 2025 astatine Muirfield Village Golf Club connected May 28, 2025, successful Dublin, Ohio. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

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Stewart adjacent mentioned getting "goosebumps" reasoning astir what it feels similar getting a medal astir your neck, and amended yet, seeing the emblem rise with the nationalist anthem playing. 

"It’s truly conscionable restitution and justification of wherefore you’re doing it and wherefore you’ve gone done those hard moments and times," she explained. "To me, the Olympics is the highest of the high. You’re playing your athletics astatine the highest level against everyone other successful the world, and you spot that. It’s conscionable a goosebump feeling nary substance however galore times you bash it. Just the pridefulness and knowing you’re representing thing bigger than yourself ever comes done afloat circle."

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