Back to chatting about the Women's Free......watching the warm up at 10am on Peacock, Amber sure looks unhappy. I sure hope she can get herself in the right place and have a great free skate. I feel so bad for her and wish the rules for the short program could allow more chances to put in an element that was just missed. I have always thought that and don't really understand why that can't be done.
2026 Olympics: Women's Free Skate
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Hi hi.. I will not be able to watch this today. There are two very important things I'd rather watch.: curling semi-finals Canada-Norway (men) and the gold medal game for hockey in women (USA-Canada).
and moreover, I will be working LOL
So take care of my faves for me
Kaori for gold !
Ami
Amber
Alysa
Loena
Jia
Haein
Lara
and moreover, I will be working LOL
So take care of my faves for me
Kaori for gold !
Ami
Amber
Alysa
Loena
Jia
Haein
Lara
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SP is a technical program, so the skaters are judged on their ability to deliver basic technical elements on cue; the whole point is that this program allows a minimal room for errors. It's even stricter in junior division where both 3A/2A and a second triple jump are mandated. That's said, Amber has more arsenal than many to make it up in the free, and I wish her the resilience and the clutch to do just that.
Also, yay, to talk about women in women's thread... awesome!
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I hope that Canadian watchers will still enjoy a good streaming!
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Not sure if I will be watching this live other than for seeing Kaori (and possibly Amber) skate. I'm going back to work today (I'm feeling a lot better!) and I'm worried about potential...shenanigans happening. I hope my worries are unfounded, though! 
Reminds me of a time back in the day I was watching coverage of a space shuttle or satellite launch live on Youtube, for probably an hour or two. As the real countdown clock started at about ten minutes before launch, I got booted from the stream. Never got back in til everything was over.
I agree wholeheartedly with this. It was entertaining, but empty.
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29 skaters from 21 ISU Members have been entered for the Olympic Games 2026
Ages of the skaters
Older:
- Julia Sauter ROU - 28 years & 8 months
- Amber Glenn USA - 26 years & 3 months
- Loena Hendrickx BEL - 26 years & 3 months
Average Age: 21 years
Younger:
- Jia Shin KOR - 17 years & 11 months
- Iida Karhunen FIN - 17 years & 10 months
- Ami Nakai JPN - 17 years & 9 months
Numbers of participation in Olympic Game
Medal - Top 6 - Top 12 - Top 24 - 25+
2018
Kaori Sakamoto JPN - 6
Loena Hendrickx BEL – 16
2022
Kaori Sakamoto JPN – Bronze Medal
Alysa Liu USA – 6
Loena Hendrickx BEL – 7
Anastasiia Gubanova GEO – 10
Ekaterina Kurakova POL – 11
Viktoriia Safonova AIN - 12
Olga Mikutina AUT – 13
Madeline Schizas CAN - 18
Alexandra Feigin BUL – 23
2026 - First Participation
Nina Pinzarrone BEL
Ruiyang Zhang CHN
Niina Petrokina EST
Iida Karhunen FIN
Lorine Schild FRA
Kristen Spours GBR
Adeliia Petrosian AIN
Mariia Seniuk ISR
Mone Chiba JPN
Ami Nakai JPN
Lara Naki Gutmann ITA
Sofia Samodelkina KAZ
Meda Variakojyte LTU
Julia Sauter ROU
Haein Lee KOR
Jia Shin KOR
Livia Kaiser SUI
Kimmy Repond SUI
Amber Glenn USA
Isabeau Levito USA
Ages of the skaters
Older:
- Julia Sauter ROU - 28 years & 8 months
- Amber Glenn USA - 26 years & 3 months
- Loena Hendrickx BEL - 26 years & 3 months
Average Age: 21 years
Younger:
- Jia Shin KOR - 17 years & 11 months
- Iida Karhunen FIN - 17 years & 10 months
- Ami Nakai JPN - 17 years & 9 months
Numbers of participation in Olympic Game
Medal - Top 6 - Top 12 - Top 24 - 25+
2018
Kaori Sakamoto JPN - 6
Loena Hendrickx BEL – 16
2022
Kaori Sakamoto JPN – Bronze Medal
Alysa Liu USA – 6
Loena Hendrickx BEL – 7
Anastasiia Gubanova GEO – 10
Ekaterina Kurakova POL – 11
Viktoriia Safonova AIN - 12
Olga Mikutina AUT – 13
Madeline Schizas CAN - 18
Alexandra Feigin BUL – 23
2026 - First Participation
Nina Pinzarrone BEL
Ruiyang Zhang CHN
Niina Petrokina EST
Iida Karhunen FIN
Lorine Schild FRA
Kristen Spours GBR
Adeliia Petrosian AIN
Mariia Seniuk ISR
Mone Chiba JPN
Ami Nakai JPN
Lara Naki Gutmann ITA
Sofia Samodelkina KAZ
Meda Variakojyte LTU
Julia Sauter ROU
Haein Lee KOR
Jia Shin KOR
Livia Kaiser SUI
Kimmy Repond SUI
Amber Glenn USA
Isabeau Levito USA
Thanks for the informative reply! Still think it would be showing tech ability if you were allowed to try it again on the fly with quick thinking. Sometimes it seems sport rules are too harsh. Like Amber can't do 2, 3axel in long unless one is in combo.
Sorry to hear that Amber looked unhappy. She wears her heart on her sleeve and although it's good to get out feelings you also need to manage them at critical times. My hope for Amber is a strong LP performance that puts her in the top 5.
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Amber needs to reset and not think about medals and just skate her best.
Shun Sato had no idea he would rise to a medal after a ninth place short, almost 20 points behind Malinin, and that, without a superior tech base to call on in the free. Amber is a few places lower, but not so many points adrift, and very few women have a 3A. Medals are not within her control, she'd need some screw ups, but ice is slippery. If she skates clean, she puts pressure on the others. Matching her PB would probably move her up quite a few places, even if others skate well. But so much comes down to her mental state.
Gogolev and Gummenik also advanced way up the ranking after the short, and then there is Miura and Kihara. All to play for...
Shun Sato had no idea he would rise to a medal after a ninth place short, almost 20 points behind Malinin, and that, without a superior tech base to call on in the free. Amber is a few places lower, but not so many points adrift, and very few women have a 3A. Medals are not within her control, she'd need some screw ups, but ice is slippery. If she skates clean, she puts pressure on the others. Matching her PB would probably move her up quite a few places, even if others skate well. But so much comes down to her mental state.
Gogolev and Gummenik also advanced way up the ranking after the short, and then there is Miura and Kihara. All to play for...
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Actually she might do a second Triple Axel without a combination but it wouldn't be yielding score-wise, because 1) her second 3A would have a reduced Base Value, 2) it would still block one of the two Zayak spots, so she would be allowed to repeat only one other triple jump.
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Women can be menning too?
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Equal opportunities!
Men men most, but we can have menning all round, in the pressure cooker of the Olympics.
Women menned quite a lot at Europeans, I seem to remember. https://www.isuresults.com/results/season2526/ec2026/CAT002RS.htm
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Do you mean...?If women can be menning, can men be pairing ?
(trying to lighten up the mood here...)
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