Olympic gold medalist Breanna Stewart reflects on 'pride and passion' shown by Team USA in Milan

Like galore Americans, WNBA superstar Breanna Stewart was watching the 2026 Milan Cortina Games from home, hoping each clip she turned connected to ticker athletes vie successful immoderate sport, a subordinate of Team USA was connected the podium astatine the end.

Team USA accumulated a grounds 12 golden medals successful the Winter Olympics, and arsenic a three-time victor herself successful women's hoops during the Summer Games, Stewart couldn't assistance but deliberation astir what's successful store 2 years from present successful Los Angeles.

"I’ve been talking astir LA28 a small much these days. I deliberation it’s going to beryllium crazy," Stewart told Fox News Digital portion discussing her concern with Throne Sport Coffee arsenic the archetypal pistillate jock to articulation the brand.

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Breanna Stewart of Team United States celebrates with her kid during the Women's hoops medal ceremonial connected time sixteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 astatine Bercy Arena connected Aug. 11, 2024 successful Paris, France. (Elsa/Getty Images)

Whether it was 20-year-old Alysa Liu smiling aft a fantastic gold-medal figuring skating performance, oregon the men's and women's hockey teams some defeating Canada successful overtime to unafraid triumph successful Milan, Stewart knew precisely however they felt with that medal astir their cervix and watching arsenic the American emblem roseate to the rafters.

It's a feeling Stewart inactive gets "goosebumps" reasoning about.

"When you’re connected the podium, you spot the emblem rise and the nationalist anthem is going with the golden medal astir your neck, 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."

While American pridefulness is connected display, galore backmost location were besides learning much astir sports they seldom get to ticker starring up to the Games. Stewart felt the aforesaid way.

"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. 

"The Olympics are peculiar each clip I get to bash them, and I cognize that it’s the aforesaid for each of those athletes. I thought it was a truly chill infinitesimal for everybody and, I mean, women’s hockey what an unthinkable ending. Men’s hockey, the aforesaid thing. Listen, I would ne'er privation to get my teeth knocked retired by a hockey stick, I tin archer you that much."

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)

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Stewart is, of course, talking astir the deed Jack Hughes took from an errant instrumentality by Canada, which chipped his beforehand teeth. But helium was the men's hockey hero, scoring the overtime extremity and donning the American emblem astir his back, bloody rima and all, arsenic helium smiled successful solemnisation connected the rink successful Milan.

Megan Keller was besides a leader for the U.S., putting a nifty deke connected a Canadian defender and back-handing a changeable into the nett to nonstop the American seat into a frenzy aft her overtime extremity sealed golden conscionable days earlier the men accomplished the aforesaid feat.

Two years down the road, Stewart is hoping to gain her 4th Olympic golden medal, and adjacent much truthful considering this volition beryllium her archetypal clip staying astatine location successful the States to vie against the champion successful the world.

"Even conscionable fast-forwarding to 2 years from now, the information we’re yet going to beryllium successful our location country, I consciousness like, particularly speaking from the women’s nationalist hoops team, we’re ever playing against different radical successful their big countries, and we’re ever being basal against," she said. "To person that location assemblage down america is going to beryllium thing radical haven’t felt successful a long, agelong clip and I’m excited to accidental I’ll beryllium feeling that, too."

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Between her hard enactment connected the tribunal arsenic a WNBA superstar, and her duties arsenic a parent astatine home, Stewart needs immoderate caffeine passim the time to support her going.

Breanna Stewart of Team United States hugs adjunct manager Kara Lawson of Team United States and celebrates aft their team's triumph against Team France during the Women's Gold Medal crippled betwixt Team France and Team United States connected time sixteen of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 astatine Bercy Arena connected Aug. 11, 2024 successful Paris, France. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

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But Stewart isn’t conscionable drinking immoderate java to get her hole — she’s partnered with a marque that is cleanable for the pro jock she is.

Stewart has joined Throne SPORT COFFEE, becoming the archetypal pistillate jock to spouse with the marque that prides itself connected being overmuch much than conscionable a java provider.

It conscionable seems truly earthy and fitting for me," she told FOX Business successful an exclusive interrogation astir the partnership. "I deliberation that being an athlete, being a mom, there’s truthful galore reasons wherefore we perpetually request caffeine. But to person it successful a steadfast way, and besides person the macromolecule successful it — each clip I locomotion successful the gym I’m having one. I’m letting everyone cognize that not lone americium I drinking coffee, but I’m getting truthful affirmative macromolecule payment arsenic well."

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