With seven clean triple jumps, Alysa Liu skated effortlessly to Olympic gold, becoming the first American woman in 20 years ...

It seemed Amber Glenn had everything under control. Competing in the women’s short program, she nailed a triple axel to start, drawing huge cheers from the crowd.

What makes it so impressive? Any axel jump–single, double, triple, or quad–actually involves an extra half rotation. So a single axel is really 1.5 turns in the air, the double 2.5, and so on. So yes, ...

For Olympic figure skaters, all those hours, jumps and training are boiled down to around six or seven minutes during the Winter games. Mirai Nagasu became the first ever American woman to land a ...

Ilia Malinin has made a name by accomplishing the difficult feat in figure skating.

Had Glenn fallen, she would have had an automatic one-point deduction — a better outcome than the zero earned for an invalid element.

Cortina? Explore the high-stakes jump as figure skating stars Amber Glenn, Adeliia Petrosian and Alysa Liu battle at the 2026 Winter Olympics.