{"id":172079,"date":"2026-02-19T23:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/172079\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T23:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:25:09","slug":"amber-glenn-of-plano-finishes-fifth-in-womens-free-skate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/172079\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Glenn of Plano finishes fifth in women\u2019s free skate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MILAN, Italy (KCBD) &#8211; During one of the Winter Olympics\u2019 signature events, Amber Glenn turned in one of the best performances of her career. Two days after the Plano-native fell to 13th place after under-rotating a triple loop, a core requirement in the women\u2019s short program, she found redemption in Thursday\u2019s free skate and left Milano Ice Skating Arena as the No. 5 figure skater in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During her free skate, Glenn posted a 147.52 and lead the field for nearly an hour- until the final group took to the ice. Her performance in Thursday\u2019s final was the third-best of the day, only behind gold medalist Alyssa Liu of the United States (150.20, 226.79 overall) and Koari Sakomoto of Japan (147.67, 224.90).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">While she didn\u2019t earn medal, she still managed to climb the leaderboard more than anyone else in the final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Glenn joins pairs skater Emily Chan of McKinney and ice hockey forward Hannah Bilka of Coppell as DFW athletes competing this winter at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics. Bilka and her teammates reclaimed gold Thursday beating their rivals from Canada 2-1 in overtime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Boone Niederhofer of San Antonio will make his Olympic debut Saturday as a part of the United States four-man bobsled team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Follow KCBD and <a href=\"https:\/\/KCBD.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/KCBD.com\" target=\"_blank\">KCBD.com<\/a> for coverage of the Milan-Cortina Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILAN, Italy (KCBD) &#8211; During one of the Winter Olympics\u2019 signature events, Amber Glenn turned in one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[69584,50630,69583,69582,37810,160,162,161,65583,62737,69585],"class_list":{"0":"post-172079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-dfw-stars","9":"tag-figure-skating","10":"tag-metroplex-stars","11":"tag-milan-cortina","12":"tag-olympics","13":"tag-plano","14":"tag-plano-headlines","15":"tag-plano-news","16":"tag-team-usa","17":"tag-winter-olympics","18":"tag-womens-free-skate"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172079","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=172079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}