Figure skating’s Olympic competition is far from over as some of the biggest U.S. stars, known as the “Blade Angels,” look for a potential gold medal win, or even better, a podium sweep.
With the pairs program wrapping its individual medals, the women’s events are set follow, bringing some of the most-anticipated skates of the Olympic Games.
The medals won’t be won Tuesday but medal hopes can be dashed in the short program.
Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu and Isabeau Levito are American skating stars for a new era, with a tongue-in-cheek nickname that is a nod to “Blades of Glory” and “Charlie’s Angels.” The trio will be aiming for the first U.S. women’s medal since Sasha Cohen in Turin in 2006, and perhaps the first gold medal since Sarah Hughes triumphed four years earlier at the Salt Lake City Games.
“I haven’t seen a U.S. women’s team this strong in 20 years,” Olympic gold medalist and commentator Tara Lipinski told NBC Olympics.
Still, rivals are sure to challenge.
Here’s what to know and who to watch:
When is women’s figure skating at the Olympics?
The women’s short program will begin at 11:45 a.m. CT Tuesday. The free skate will follow at 12 p.m. Thursday.
Where to watch women’s figure skating at the Olympics?
Short Program
Coverage of the women’s short program will air live on USA to start, with the second half airing at 1:40 p.m. CT on NBC.
Stream below:
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Free Skate
Thursday’s final will air entirely on NBC. Watch live here:
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Who to watch
Alysa Liu
Liu was picked for her second Olympic team after briefly retiring following the Beijing Games. She had been burned out by years of practice and competing, but stepping away seemed to rejuvenate the 20-year-old.
Liu’s blond-and-brunette striped hair, prominent frenulum piercing and nonconformist aura have made the 20-year-old a hero of the alt, punk and emo crowd.
She is the only member of the U.S. women’s team with any previous Olympics experience.
Liu retired suddenly after placing sixth at the 2022 Olympics and it took two years before she rediscovered a love for skating. In 2025, she became the first U.S. woman to win the world title in 19 years.
Friday’s skate in the short program wasn’t quite at that level and Liu grimaced at one wobbly landing as she placed second. Still, it kept the U.S. team in the lead with three of eight programs completed.
Liu draws strength from her American teammates — “that energy is what I crave” — and came up with the nickname “Blade Angels.”
Nerves? No chance.
“I don’t know what’s up with me,” she said. “They’re going to actually have to dissect my brain when I’m dead and figure me out.”
Amber Glenn
Glenn grew up in Plano, Texas. Her father, Richard, is a police sergeant and her mom, Cathlene, a fitness instructor. She’s represented the U.S. internationally for nearly 15 years, which happens to be how old Lipinski was when she won Olympic gold.
It’s hard to get more unabashedly American. Yet some critics nevertheless questioned her allegiances on the eve of the Milan Cortina Games, when Glenn answered a question about the political climate for the LGBTQ+ community under President Donald Trump.
“I hope I can use my platform and voice throughout these Games to help people stay strong during these hard times,” she said. “A lot of people will say, ‘You’re just an athlete. Stick to your job. Shut up about politics.’ But politics affect us all.”
Glenn probably wouldn’t have taken such a bold stance a decade ago, when she nearly quit the sport.
But over the course of her career, she’s tackled head-on an eating disorder, which is all-too common in the sport. She spent time in a mental health facility to get a handle on her depression. She learned to cope with ADHD. And she came to understand her sexuality; Glenn identifies as pansexual, meaning she is attracted to people regardless of sex or gender.
“I’ve been through a lot,” Glenn told The Associated Press. “It’s taken many, many years to get to this point.”
Now, she has an Olympic gold medal from her Winter Games debut after helping the U.S. defend its title in the team event.
“I stepped away from the sport. I’ve come back. At one point, I hated it. Whenever people would ask me, ‘Oh, should my kids get into it?’ I would be like, ‘No, never,’” Glenn said. “But I’ve seen the people around me grow, and how the environment of figure skating has changed, and how we’re trying to change it. And in doing so, we’ve created an environment I like to be in every day.”
Glenn is expected to be the only American woman trying a triple axel at the Games, though she struggled through a shaky free skate during the team event.
The reigning three-time U.S. champion, in her first time on the ice at the Games, finished third in the event. She recovered from some early miscues to score a 138.62.
“It wasn’t how I wanted to feel,” Glenn told NBC after her skate. “I was really proud of the mental strength I had that it would not have been the program I would have put out after a mistake a few years ago. So, I’m very proud of the fight. At the practices here I’ve been on fire honestly, doing clean programs. So, I just felt really not my best today, so I was just disappointed in that.”
Isabeau Levito
Levito has always admired Russian skater Evgenia Medvedeva, perhaps the most dominant women’s skater of the mid-2000s, who was heavily favored to win gold at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games but wound up with the silver medal instead.
“She was just so pretty. I just wanted to have that angelic energy that I feel like she has,” Levito told the AP. “Amber and Alysa have their distinct style, and she was more like me. My style is, I don’t know, put together. I don’t know how to word it.
“The ice princess image,” Levito said, after a long pause, “which is silly to say.”
Mostly because it is just that — an image.
Yes, there is a sense of purity surrounding Levito, whose mother, Chiara, immigrated to the U.S. from Milan three decades ago, and whose grandmother still lives in the host city of the Winter Games. But pull her away from the TV cameras, photographers and the prying eyes of the world, and her sarcastic-bordering-on-vulgar sense of humor bubbles to the surface.
The 18‑year‑old figure skater has quickly become one of Team USA’s most promising young talents.
Even though she is a newcomer to the Olympic stage, she has already achieved remarkable success in other major competitions. Her biggest accomplishment so far is widely considered her silver medal at the 2024 World Figure Skating Championships — the best finish by an American woman since 2016.
Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai.
Watch out for Kaori Sakamoto of Japan, a three-time world champion, and her teammate, Ami Nakai.
Olympic bronze medalist Sakamoto won the women’s short program during the team event, beating Liu in the process.
Adeliia Petrosian
Then there’s Adeliia Petrosian, who has barely skated outside Russia but could shake up the whole competition. Competing as a neutral athlete, Petrosian has big jumps and a controversial coach, and seems to have shaken off injury concerns.
It might be easy to miss Petrosian, since she skates second of 29 competitors, with the other main contenders at the end.
If Petrosian can get past skaters like the U.S. “Blade Angels” trio and the Japanese stars, she’ll shoot to sudden fame as the fourth consecutive Olympic champion from Russia.
Petrosian has landed quadruple jumps in Russian national events, much like her compatriots were able to do in previous Olympics, and none of the other skaters at the Milan Cortina Games are able to match those high-scoring elements.
The big question is whether she’s fit enough to do it in Milan.
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