The Amber Glenn Realness Appreciation Fan Page

[Icetalavista]

Record 44 out LGBTQ athletes in 2026 Milan Winter Olympics - Outsports

Team LGBTQ will be the biggest ever for a Winter Olympics, as at least 41 out athletes are competing for gold in Milan.

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Athletes on Team LGBTQ for the Milan Winter Olympics include (l-r): Brittany Bowe, Amber Glenn, Gus Kenworthy, Conor McDermott-Mostowy and Lewis Gibson.

Cizeron isn’t joining?

 

[Sylvia]

^^^ Did you mean to reply in Amber's fan thread?

Nexstar has a 10+ minute video of Amber talking in the mixed zone after practice today (titled "Figure skater Amber Glenn balances mental and physical health for Olympics") + recap article:
https://www.wavy.com/sports/italy-o...nces-mental-and-physical-health-for-olympics/
It's mentioned near the end of the article that she has a scheduled day off tomorrow (Feb. 4).

ETA an alternate link to the video only: https://www.koin.com/video/figure-s...al-and-physical-health-for-olympics/11486866/

 

[Sylvia]

Amber spoke at the Team USA press conference (with Chock/Bates & Malinin) earlier today - Amber's fan account on X posted all of her clips - https://x.com/AmberGlennDaily/status/2019074167090344213
“It’s all gonna come down to the decisions that the athletes and the people in charge make. […] No matter who does what event, the depth and talent is absolutely incredible on this team.” ͢ On scheduling and the Team Event.

“I know a lot of people say ‘you’re just an athlete, like, stick to your job, shut up about politics,’ but politics affect us all. It is something that I will not just be quiet about.” ͢ On using her platform during The Games. https://x.com/AmberGlennDaily/status/2019074170324218365

“I really had to balance the pushing but also, this is just another competition. I just need to do my job and do the best that I can. It’s just like Nationals again, but I’ve just had a bit more time to prepare.” ͢ On being at her best for The Games. https://x.com/AmberGlennDaily/status/2019074171918070236

“I feel like the intensity wore off pretty quickly and now it’s just a really cool, fun experience. […] It’s been so cool and so fun, I feel like a kid again.” ͢ On the experience of The Games. https://x.com/AmberGlennDaily/status/2019074173515993406

“I feel like the intensity wore off pretty quickly and now it’s just a really cool, fun experience. […] It’s been so cool and so fun, I feel like a kid again.” ͢ On the experience of The Games. https://x.com/AmberGlennDaily/status/2019074175458054260

“It’s been a very strenuous process for many of us, but we have a great team around us. […] For me, I just focus on what I can control and what I can do and let the people around me handle that kind of stuff. “ ͢ On the Minions saga and music rights. https://x.com/AmberGlennDaily/status/2019074177655848963
: "I've been keeping up-to-date with this Minions saga... I am ON this - I told people they were going to see the Minions at the Olympics and I don't want to be a liar!"
(ETA that I transcribed a bit more from this clip and have posted it in the "Music rights clearance issues" thread in GSD)

[Last line of the press conference]: “If I do get a message from Madonna saying she doesn’t want me to skate to her music, I mean I’ll just be excited to get a message from Madonna.” https://x.com/AmberGlennDaily/status/2019074180075986975

 

[alexikeguchi]

[Last line of the press conference]: “If I do get a message from Madonna saying she doesn’t want me to skate to her music, I mean I’ll just be excited to get a message from Madonna.” https://x.com/AmberGlennDaily/status/2019074180075986975

That is hilarious!

 

[Allskate]

This Starbucks ad with Amber just popped up:

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[Sylvia]

@Allskate your link only goes to Instagram ^^^. Is the Starbucks ad different from what you posted earlier?

Amber is doubling down on the caffeine. Here she is in a Starbucks promotion:

Amber Glenn on Instagram: "big fan of winter. big fan of @starbucks. @teamusa #starbuckspartner"

1,382 likes, 19 comments - amberglenniceskater on February 2, 2026: "big fan of winter. big fan of @starbucks. @teamusa #starbuckspartner".

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Oh that must have been what she went to Innsbruck, Austria after Finlandia Trophy in Helsinki to film - Damon Allen mentioned this in the article by Phil Hersh in early December 2025 before the GP Final: https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/amber-glenn-aims-defend-grand-prix-final-title-free-fear

 

[Allskate]

@Allskate your link only goes to Instagram ^^^. Is the Starbucks ad different from what you posted earlier?

Yes, it's different. Very ASMR. Maybe because it's an ad, it's going to the main page?

ETA: I found it on the Starbucks account. Hope this works:

Starbucks on Instagram: "the sounds of @teamusa 🤝 the sounds of starbucks"

1,280 likes, 14 comments - starbucks on February 4, 2026: "the sounds of @teamusa 🤝 the sounds of starbucks".

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[Sylvia]

The Olympics Figure Skating YT channel has some practice footage - I recommend muting the bad music that was added and just watching Amber skate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxURFd70NHU

NYT's The Athletic feature article by Marcus Thompson II (Feb. 4, 2026):

Amber Glenn, U.S. figure skating Olympic gold hopeful, got here the only way she could

Most figure skaters don't find their best form at 26. Glenn isn't most skaters. She just needed to find her way on her time.

www.nytimes.com

Excerpt:

Glenn has spent much of her career in a wide, frustrating space in figure skating. That place where talent is undeniable but transcendence keeps its distance. Glenn could always be described as a great skater. Pretty good skaters don’t win junior national championships at 14. But this sport reserves its greatest rewards for the exceptional while demanding so much that exceptional seems the only acceptable payoff.
Glenn landed the hard jumps, trained through the pain, endured the anvil that is expectations, year after year, yet got close enough to the summit only to confirm she didn’t reach it.
Figure skating is ruthless that way. It doesn’t just measure what skaters can do, it penalizes what they didn’t. It constantly reminds them of perfection not attained. For Glenn, the imperfection lay with her identity. The ceiling thwarting her exceptional talent originated from the constraints of tradition. She tried. Softened her edges, so to speak. Sharpened her skating. The difference between great and the best in figure skating exists in the margins, often small enough to be microscopic.
But while adding a clean triple axel to her repertoire in 2023 elevated her to another level, Glenn’s real elevation came from within. When she stopped expending energy on concealing her intensity, her aura, her truth.
“I didn’t fit the mold, and I tried so hard to fit into it,” Glenn said. “And once I accepted that just wasn’t going to happen, honestly, I started to kind of lean into it a bit more. I just let myself be me. And through that, I was able to find a new, unique shape that hadn’t been taken before.”

Bustle article (Feb. 5):

Amber Glenn On The Breath Work & Warm-Ups That Get Her Ready To Compete

Olympic figure skater Amber Glenn talks about coping with nerves and using Pinterest to inspire her outfits for the ice.

www.bustle.com

ETA link to Alice Park's TIME article (Feb. 4):

How Figure Skater Amber Glenn Took Control of Her Life

After leaving competitive skating for a few months as a teen, the three-time national champion is making her Olympic debut

time.com

Excerpt:

Competing at local competitions, she says, “felt like life or death.” And it didn’t help that her entire world was skating, so everyone around her fed off the same mentality of striving for perfection and never being satisfied. “That was our normal. Our coaches would pit us against each other, and at 10 years old, we were forced to have this competitiveness and comparison—it’s so toxic,” she says.
Glenn developed an eating disorder, and her anxiety worsened. She intuitively realized that she could not continue in such an unhealthy environment, but felt powerless to change. “I wouldn’t be able to skate,” she says. “I was miserable. I felt like I didn’t belong with the elite [skaters] but I also didn’t have the experience of being ‘normal’ either. A lot of my friends had gone off, started high school and were doing other things. And I was stuck here. I thought I wasn’t going anywhere and got into this severe depression where I didn’t want to keep living—I didn’t want to do anything.”
Glenn saw a psychiatrist who prescribed an antidepressant, but she didn’t have a good reaction to the medication. She wasn’t eating properly or sleeping well either, which further aggravated her fragile mental state. It was one of Glenn’s closest friends who realized her friend was drowning and spoke to Glenn’s parents.
“It did come as a shock to my parents,” Glenn says. “They thought it was just me stressing out over skating, when it was a lot more than that.” Even then Glenn was reluctant to admit that she needed help, since, she says, “growing up in Texas, there wasn’t mental health. It just wasn’t a thing. It was ‘Stop crying, get up, and do your job.’ It couldn’t be more different now. But in 2015, it wasn’t really thought of much.”

 

[BittyBug]

Here’s a gift link for the NYT article:

Amber Glenn, U.S. figure skating Olympic gold hopeful, got here the only way she could

Most figure skaters don't find their best form at 26. Glenn isn't most skaters. She just needed to find her way on her time.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Finnice]

All the best for her both at the Olys and afterwards.

 

[Allskate]

Did anyone catch a glimpse of Amber at the Opening Ceremony? I didn't see her. I wonder if she's resting up to do the long program in the TE.

 

[Calebpuppydad]

I think the relatively strict calling by the technical panel in the TE sp could bode well for Amber. Her jumps are generally clean. If she can hold it together, gold is a real possibility.

 

[jao86]

Did anyone catch a glimpse of Amber at the Opening Ceremony? I didn't see her. I wonder if she's resting up to do the long program in the TE.

Yep! She skipped. I think this basically confirms it!

https://twitter.com/x/status/2019894790213566880

 

[Calebpuppydad]

Yep! She skipped. I think this basically confirms it!

https://twitter.com/x/status/2019894790213566880

Well, that pretty much confirms that Amber is doing the TE long program. The individual event women's short program isn't until Feb. 17th. Yea!!!

 

[Spikefan]

Amber just shared she is getting a ton of hate for using her voice. Will be limiting her social media.

 

[Allskate]

Amber just shared she is getting a ton of hate for using her voice. Will be limiting her social media.

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It really pisses me off. What seemed to set this off was what she said in the press conference this past week when she was asked a question about being queer and out right now and she talked about how difficult it was for the queer community and for other communities right now, but also said that people were coming together and almost offering a bit of hope. (She has also been posting a bit about the horrible things ICE has been doing.)

What makes this sadder is that Amber loves using social media to promote community and mental health.

On a better note, I just watched her practice on Peacock. She looked great, including a couple of beautiful triple axels. (And, on a much more shallow note, I love her outfit; I hope she has a sponsorship deal. )

 

[Allskate]

For those of you who didn't see Amber's press conference response that triggered the hate directed at her, this is what she said:

Democratic Wins Media on Instagram: "BREAKING: American figure skater Amber Glenn just powerfully spoke about how she is using her platform to support LGBTQ+ Americans under the Trump Administration. This is amazing. Follow @democraticwinsmedia and

40K likes, 730 comments - democraticwinsmedia on February 6, 2026: "BREAKING: American figure skater Amber Glenn just powerfully spoke about how she is using her platform to support LGBTQ+ Americans under the Trump Administration. This is amazing. Follow @democraticwinsmedia and...

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[Sylvia]

“I know a lot of people say ‘you’re just an athlete, like, stick to your job, shut up about politics,’ but politics affect us all. It is something that I will not just be quiet about.” ͢ On using her platform during The Games. https://x.com/AmberGlennDaily/status/2019074170324218365

I just replied to an Amber uberfan about this: https://x.com/SylviaUnseen/status/2020325093981974993

https://twitter.com/x/status/2020325093981974993

 

[Allskate]

Here is a happier video. Elyce and Amber's coach and family sending her messages:

U.S. Figure Skating on Instagram: "Hey @amberglenniceskater, your family and friends have some pre-Olympic skate messages for you! 💌 #WinterOlympics"

1,840 likes, 22 comments - usfigureskating on February 8, 2026: "Hey @amberglenniceskater, your family and friends have some pre-Olympic skate messages for you! 💌 #WinterOlympics".

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[Sylvia]

CONGRATULATIONS to Amber and all the Olympic Team Event gold medalists! Photo by Amber & her teammates by Matt Fitzgerald: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUhTWL5CB9Y/?img_index=6

Amber mixed zone clip after her FS:

NBC DFW on Instagram: "American figure skater Amber Glenn told press she didn’t know if she “could have felt worse out there” in her free skate of the team event at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics."

259 likes, 6 comments - nbcdfw on February 8, 2026: "American figure skater Amber Glenn told press she didn’t know if she “could have felt worse out there” in her free skate of the team event at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics.".

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Golden Skate's transcription of Amber's mixed zone quotes: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUguLkGjKjg/

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[BittyBug]

Ugh, and now Amber has to deal with music copyright issues.

US figure skater Amber Glenn faces backlash over politics and copyright issues after Olympic gold

Amber Glenn wins Olympic gold in the team event but faces backlash over her political and LGBTQ+ comments.

apnews.com

 

[Allskate]

Ugh, and now Amber has to deal with music copyright issues.

Amber has been skating this program for two seasons, including Worlds and two Nationals. How on earth is this the first time he's heard about it? I find that really hard to believe.

 

[Sylvia]

His 2 latest X posts:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2020778746966638813

Link to watch Amber on the Today Show with Alysa, Ellie & Danny: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...how-other-tv-appearances.113585/#post-6887431

 

[Theatregirl1122]

I'm a little worried about how down on herself and her own performance she sounds despite the fact that they won.

 

[Allskate]

I'm a little worried about how down on herself and her own performance she sounds despite the fact that they won.

Amber always is down on herself after a mistake. She seems to be much happier today. Watch her on the Today Show, especially this little intro:

TODAY on Instagram: "it’s a ✨golden ✨ morning for Team USA. 🫶 🇺🇸"

801 likes, 2 comments - todayshow on February 9, 2026: "it’s a ✨golden ✨ morning for Team USA. 🫶 🇺🇸".

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I'm glad that she didn't let the haters stop her from posting some happy photos and vids on Instagram:

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[Sylvia]

NBC Atlanta's Cheryl Preheim spoke to Amber this morning:

Cheryl Preheim on Instagram: "It’s gold for Amber Glenn and Team USA. This team has a special connection that makes the olympic win more meaningful. Amber talks about that, and why she was relieved the moment the score made gold official. 🥇🇺🇸 . Grea

9 likes, 1 comments - cheryl.preheim on February 9, 2026: "It’s gold for Amber Glenn and Team USA. This team has a special connection that makes the olympic win more meaningful. Amber talks about that, and why she was relieved the moment the score made gold official. 🥇🇺🇸 . Great to talk with...

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[Allskate]

I'm so happy for Amber that she got messages from Madonna.

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Amber Glenn Gets Stunned by Madonna’s Message After Winning Gold at Winter Olympics 2026 | College Sports Network

Amber Glenn opens up about receiving message from Madonna.

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[Sylvia]

(This article link was posted in the GSD thread last week so bringing it over here) US figure skater Amber Glenn resolves copyright issue with a Canadian music artist at the Olympics by AP's Dave Skretta (Feb. 10):

US figure skater Amber Glenn resolves copyright issue with a Canadian music artist at the Olympics

U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn says she has resolved copyright concerns with Canadian artist Seb McKinnon over her free skate music.

apnews.com

“It was a dream come true to perform at the Olympic Games and to have Seb acknowledge my performance and congratulate me afterward made the moment even more special,” Glenn said. “It’s my sincere hope that I was able to help create new fans of both figure skating and Seb. We will move forward and continue supporting both artists and the skating community.”
McKinnon, whose debut feature film “The Stolen Child” will be released soon, confirmed Monday that the copyright issues had been resolved. McKinnon said he wasn’t trying to cause a controversy but wanted to ensure the rights of artists were respected.
“I love it when music inspires people,” he said. “We can all agree creators deserve clear consent, proper credit and fair compensation when their work is used. It doesn’t matter if you’re the most famous artist in the world or a complete unknown. It’s for all.”

3 portraits by Marcus Smith:

Marcus Smith on Instagram: "@amberglenniceskater made history with her performance the other night in @milanocortina2026. This portrait set is one of the many reasons I love photographing athletes. The first frame feels iconic. The eyes always tell t

2,625 likes, 16 comments - marcus.chi on February 10, 2026: "@amberglenniceskater made history with her performance the other night in @milanocortina2026. This portrait set is one of the many reasons I love photographing athletes. The first frame feels iconic. The eyes always tell the story. Now...

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Amber practiced twice on Saturday, Feb. 14 - Jackie Wong's jump notes:
Morning: 2A, 2A, 3T, 3Lo, 3F, 3F3T, 1A, 3A(hangs on), 3A(ftdwn), 3A, runthru (3A(ur,fall), 3F3T, 3Lo), 2A(hangs on), 2A, 3A, 3A, 3F3T, 3Lz2T
Afternoon: 2A, 3Lo2A2A, 3F, 3F3T, 3Lz2T, 3A(hangs on), 3A, runthru (2A, 2F(step), marked Lz/S, 3Lo2A2A, 3F, 1Lo), 3Lo, 3A, 2F, 3F3T, 3A(fall), 3A, 3Lo, 3S, 3S

 

[Allskate]

Here is an interesting article about the training going on in Bergamo during the Olympics, with some discussion of Amber.

It's good to see confirmation that the American skaters have physios and sports psychologists on site.

Meanwhile, in Bergamo: A look inside IceLab amidst the Olympics

By Maya Bleszinski, CSUF World News

csufolympics.com

 

[Sylvia]

Ilia & Amber out & about in Milan today, Feb. 1st (photos by Damon Allen):

Damon Allen on Instagram: "Day 2 in Milan with Amber Glenn and Ilia."

133 likes, 6 comments - damonenrique on February 1, 2026: "Day 2 in Milan with Amber Glenn and Ilia.".

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Amber/Ilia’s Google-sponsored video (filmed on Feb. 1) is here:

Amber Glenn on Instagram: "#sponsored Guess who took a much-needed break from training? 😉 TY @Google for the epic itinerary ✨🏛️👂🏽"

1,815 likes, 16 comments - amberglenniceskater on February 15, 2026: "#sponsored Guess who took a much-needed break from training? 😉 TY @Google for the epic itinerary ✨🏛️👂🏽".

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