"Amber Glenn achieved a lifelong goal, sealing her Olympic bid by winning her third consecutive U.S. championship last month. Her first celebration came with her opponents. "We all deserve it," Glenn said with her arms wrapped around national silver medalist Alysa Liu and bronze medalist Isabeau Levito. The spirit of collaboration has brought U.S. figure skating into a new golden age. The 16-athlete team the United States sent to Milan may be the country's strongest Olympic team in decades. With three reigning world champions and three current Grand Prix final champions, the United States is poised for one of its best Olympic Games ever in figure skating."
""We're all in this together," said Justin Dillon, U.S. Figure Skating senior director of athlete high performance. "We're all working towards those goals. ... I very much appreciate our athletes really wanting to outdo themselves, outdo each other but with respect and at the highest level possible." The United States is almost assured a repeat gold in the men's singles event with Ilia Malinin, whose unmatched quad axel has him on a two-and-a-half-year winning streak. Ice dancers Evan Bates and Madison Chock are three-time defending world champions who return to their fourth - and likely final - Olympics together poised to earn the only individual meda"
U.S. figure skaters enter the Milan Olympics with a 16-athlete roster that may be the country's strongest in decades, featuring three reigning world champions and three current Grand Prix final champions. Athletes now show a collaborative culture, supporting teammates and celebrating shared success, as demonstrated when Amber Glenn embraced Alysa Liu and Isabeau Levito after clinching her Olympic spot. The United States seeks to surpass past Olympic results—five figure skating medals in 1956 is the national record, and the country has never won three figure skating golds at one Games. Ilia Malinin's quad axel and the veteran ice dance team of Evan Bates and Madison Chock bolster medal prospects.
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