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Sylvia, your link is to the NBC Today third-hour (9-o'clock-hour) interview with Amber Glenn 👏 -- thank you for posting!
Third-hour interview starts with questions from Dylan Dreyer, and continues with questions from Al Roker and Craig Melvin.
Ends with Jonathan Van Ness walk-on. (Sheneille Jones did not ask a question, but threw in a friendly joke about JVN sliding into Amber's DMs in order to ask about doing her hair.)



Amber's 8-o'clock-hour Today show interview, conducted by Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb, is what I posted earlier from Today show website.
It now also is available on YouTube:

As the president of all things Amber were there two parts of this interview? I only saw the 8 AM.
 

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Alexa Gasparotto landed a 3A in practice:
:cheer: She’s looked very close on the pole harness before so I’m not surprised at all :) - link to Alexa's own post/clip (give her feat a like!):
I assume she wrote "bittersweet" because she is the first alternate to Nationals.
 
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Congrats to Alexa Gasparotto on landing her triple axel!

Assuming that's a practice clip, she's not the first African American skater to land the triple axel, though. Chrissie Lipscomb was landing triple axels and quads c. 2000. I'm not sure Lipscomb ever even made it to Nationals, but she was a powerful, unforgettable skater. From Google searches, it looks like there was a family situation that derailed her competitive career, but she stayed involved through shows, choreography, etc.
 

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... she's not the first African American skater to land the triple axel, though. Chrissie Lipscomb was landing triple axels and quads c. 2000.
I remember that name! I just did a quick online search and found references to Lipscomb's quad (Salchow) but not a 3A specifically.

Phil Hersh wrote this August 10, 2000 article for the Chicago Tribune about Lipscomb: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2000/08/10/chicagoan-15-gets-jump-on-foes/
The entire figure skating world likely will hear sometime soon that Lipscomb, a 15-year-old from Chicago, has become the first woman to land a quadruple-revolution jump in competition.
The jump that earned the oohs and ahs in Detroit was a quadruple salchow that Lipscomb landed cleanly in a practice session for the Skate Detroit event.
Asher Hill was a guest on the "Burn It All Down" podcast (December 2, 2021) and mentioned "And there's skaters like Chrissy Lipscomb from America back in like juniors in the early 2000s was landing quads as well. She was also a Black skater. There's no kind of recognition for that."
 
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