MILAN (AP) — It wasn’t exactly a prayer that Madonna answered for American figure skater Amber Glenn. More like a wish and a dream. Just before Glenn performed her short program at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Tuesday night,

American superstar and 2026 Olympic men's gold medal favorite Ilia Malinin peforms a backflip in his short program.

The individual women’s Olympic figure skating competition begins on Tuesday, February 17, with the “Blade Angels” representing Team USA at the Milan-Cortina Games. Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn, and Isabeau Levito are representing the United States in the individual event.

At the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, the Russian Olympic Committee team was stripped of their gold medals after 15-year-old Kamila Valieva failed a drug test and was handed a four-year ban. Her coach, Eteri Tutberidze, has long served in the same role for Petrosian, who also shares the same choreographer and training site in Moscow as Valieva.

The U.S. teams will need a big comeback to get on the podium in pairs figure skating. Here's when to watch Monday's free skate. (AP Photo)

The trio of U.S. women targeting Olympic figure skating gold Tuesday night are not the dainty ice princesses of yesteryear. There's Amber Glenn, a 26-year-old powerhouse and LGBTQ+ rights activist whose career took off just when most figure skaters are contemplating retirement.

U.S. Women’s Hockey to Play in Quarterfinals Against Sweden Tomorrow (Monday) at 10:40 a.m. ET on NBC and Peacock

Thursday is the final day of men’s individual figure skating events at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. While U.S. superstar Ilia Malinin leads the field, he faces plenty of challengers, two in particular So who will participate in the men’s figure skating final?