{"id":170269,"date":"2026-02-18T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170269\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:08:08","slug":"amber-glenn-takes-the-ice-in-the-womens-free-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/170269\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Glenn takes the ice in the women\u2019s free \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amber Glenn is looking for redemption on Thursday after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/olympics\/2026-milan-cortina\/amber-glenn-womens-short-olympics\/3985041\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a shaky finish in the short program on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Plano figure skater finished 13th in the women&#8217;s short program after judges said she missed a single rotation during a triple loop, a mandatory technical element, and earned zero points for the element. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DU2DzFWDgtT\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Glenn posted on Instagram late Tuesday a clip of her skate<\/a>, apparently challenging the score and showing she completed 3.5 rotations.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Glenn is looking for redemption in the women&#8217;s single free skate at noon, which also includes mandatory technical elements but allows skaters greater freedom in the execution.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn trails both of her fellow &#8220;Blade Angels.&#8221; Teammates Alyssa Liu and Isabeau Levito finished third and eighth, respectively. Liu finished with a score of 76.59, and Levito with a 70.84.<\/p>\n<p>Liu is behind Japanese skaters Ami Nakai and Kaori Sakamoto. Mone Chiba, a third Japanese skater, is right behind in fourth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stream.nbcolympics.com\/figure-skating-womens-singles-free-skate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/playbtn-sm.png\" alt=\"play\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One country has never had three women on the figure skating podium. Heading into Thursday&#8217;s free skate, Japan has a chance of making history if it can keep Liu out of the top three.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch her performance live on NBC or stream it on Peacock <a href=\"https:\/\/stream.nbcolympics.com\/figure-skating-womens-singles-free-skate?olypid=12011643&amp;chrcontext=KXAS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She competes in the Winter Games as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcolympics.com\/news\/amber-glenn-enjoys-her-third-us-nationals-title-grace-thrilling-night-st-louis?chrcontext=KXAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the three-time reigning U.S. figure skating champion<\/a>. Her latest national title triumph saw her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcolympics.com\/news\/amber-glenn-clinches-short-program-lead-historic-us-figure-skating-championships-skate?chrcontext=KXAS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">post a record-breaking\u00a0<\/a>short program score, as well as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/usfigureskating.org\/news\/2026\/1\/10\/national-team-figure-skating-glenn-becomes-first-woman-to-win-three-consecutive-us-titles-since-michelle-kwan.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">personal-best marks<\/a>\u00a0in the free skate and the\u00a0overall score.<\/p>\n<p>Glenn&#8217;s final 2026 Winter Olympic performance will be at the exhibition gala on Feb. 21, starting at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amber Glenn is looking for redemption on Thursday after a shaky finish in the short program on Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[48241,50630,37810,160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-170269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympics","9":"tag-figure-skating","10":"tag-olympics","11":"tag-plano","12":"tag-plano-headlines","13":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}