Feb. 17, 2026
Oh No, Not Again: Another American Superstar’s Heartbreak on the Ice
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RSS Feed Just a short while ago, three time U.S. national champion figure skater Amber Glenn missed a final rotation on her last jump, almost certainly costing her the gold medal many believed she would bring home. Glenn will now go into Thursday’s medal round in 13th place. Her agony on the ice was palpable, as she tearfully told her coaches what we all knew up until that final jump: “I had it.”
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Speaker 1: Hey, that folks.
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Speaker 2: It is Tuesday, February seventeenth, and it has happened to Americans on the ice again.
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Speaker 1: At the Olympics. What is going on?
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Speaker 2: We just watched another heart breaking moment from one of the biggest ice skating stars that we have and with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Roobes. First, there was the ice dancers that got screwed out of a goal with controversy overscoring.
00:00:36
Speaker 1: Then how the hell did that happens?
00:00:38
Speaker 2: To the quad god and we are seeing we just witnessed and you all as we're recording this, we are minutes away of watching another heartbreaker for the Americans.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Amber Glenn, who was and a lot of folks had pinned their hopes on her getting gold. Of course, this is the premiere metal. When you watch the Winteral limb and if you remember all those years of watching as a kid, you remember who won, especially when they were Team USA, the gold medal in women's figure skating. This is the moment and we haven't had a gold medalist in decades, so this is a big deal.
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Speaker 1: That's proper context.
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Speaker 2: And we've been talking about I was asking you there is no bigger event, and bigger gold medal in the Summer Games, and the all around women's title in gymnastics, and the gold in women's figure skating.
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Speaker 1: This is what we're talking about. This is how big of a deal it is.
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Speaker 2: That context is important because if you're going after that thing and you're are biggest star, she had very high hopes.
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Speaker 4: She did, and so many people were rooting her on.
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Speaker 3: She skated to Madonna's uh wait not, I was gonna say it like a It's not like a version.
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Speaker 4: It's like a prayer. I almost had like a version, and no, it was like a prayer. But we even saw coverage. It was everywhere.
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Speaker 3: Madonna sent her a video message saying, go for gold. How can you not win? I've seen you skate singing or skating to my song.
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Speaker 4: You know you get it.
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Speaker 3: So like all that pressure and then in the stands, I saw Ilia Melanin.
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Speaker 1: You also saw Snoop.
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Speaker 2: You also saw Artha Steward, Greygaejeon the actor. You saw this is the premiere event and people are there. Look, we got three American darlings competing in this event. She might be Darling number one in different ways. But the what they call them are ice angels. What the nickname they.
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Speaker 1: Have for these young ladies, but they're just superb.
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Speaker 4: I think Blade Angel, Blade ain't that wonderful.
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Speaker 2: Everything is perfect, and she is just the great personality, great energy, and great at her job because she is the three time reigning US figure skating champion. We say all that to say this, folks. The women's figure stating figure skating competition started today. We watched every single second of every single skater she was. She went next to last, I believe, out of the next to last, yet out of twenty nine skaters. So we set those anticipation, couldn't wait for her to get out there and ropes.
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Speaker 1: She had a flawless routine going.
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Speaker 3: She did, in fact, the hardest triple axule. I believe that she'd been practicing NonStop. She nailed it right out of the gate and she heard I guess we can only rely on what we heard. The experts says they were watching her routine, but they said she did her hardest tricks first and did them flawlessly. So the last turn that she had the easiest one of them all, she didn't complete the triple. She only did a double, and so she lost seven points. So when you were going for gold, sometimes you can't lose one point, you can't lose a half a point. She lost seven points.
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Speaker 2: And she landed in thirteenth place. Now what this means, folks, is if you don't understand them. Frankly, that's not insulting anybody else. I need to I had to look up and confirm how this worked. But the scores from today in the short program transfer over to the longer program. The free skate is what they call it, which will be Thursday, and then your combined scores will determine who's the gold medalist. If you're that far back, you practically have no shot against the people at the top who are at their best. They're likely not going to fall that far back to you. She and I say that not because I know ice skating so well. I know the look on her face and robes. It was over. As soon as that routine ended, and you looked at her. She knew it, and because she knew it, we knew her chances are done.
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Speaker 3: She sat on the ice and she sobbed, and as she was skating to her coaches. The first thing, and this is what is so heartbreaking, The first thing that she said to her coaches, I had it. She was skating for gold, and she knew she had the gold literally within reach, except for that last jump, that last jump turn, and in that one they were saying, they put it like this, the perspective one missed turnrotation's one missed rotation was the difference between gold metal and nothing.
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Speaker 4: Nothing.
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Speaker 1: You work four.
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Speaker 2: Years and one rotation in the air that lasts a half second, it's all it takes, and it's over for this young lady.
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Speaker 1: It was devastating to watch you all, and some of you all.
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Speaker 2: Going to listen to this, and there are replays that will be on later on primetime on NBC. I encourage you to watch it and just take in. I guess Roves just another one of these incredible Olympic stories of this is just what happens sometimes.
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Speaker 1: And your heart breaks for this young lady.
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Speaker 2: She's full tears by the time she gets off the ice, and she had to be held up, she had to be consoled. She was hugging, and then she sat in neck was they called the kiss and what booth, the Kiss and Cry booth, right where they sit there waiting on their scores, crying the entire.
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Speaker 3: Time, almost yes, And it was her coach who actually had to even bring her her jacket.
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Speaker 4: She was so upset.
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Speaker 3: You know, you usually see them get up and sit and wait for their score with their jackets. It's cold on the ice. She was so distraught. She just went straight there, didn't pass anything to collect herself. Her coaches were bringing her things. She was just completely out of it. She was beside herself. It was so heartbreaking to see her, to know that just that. I mean, I can't imagine how many times as an athlete you would just replay that moment over and over and over and just think, why, why, why why couldn't I have just completed that rotation?
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Speaker 2: And here's the thing, folks, Look, we know that anything could happen, but they are about six women ahead of her that would have to have the worst skates of their lives for her to have a chance of getting a medal. If she even has the best skate of her life on Thursday. The way these scores work, Rose, it's just she's so far back. Look, if she could have she do I have this right. If she had completed the turn but then stumbled and fell, that would have cost.
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Speaker 3: Her less correct than what she did correct, because we've even seen people metal who have fallen. You can fall as long as you've completed whatever technical requirement there was for you to get credit for something. So because just one rotation short of a triple, she did a double that cost her seven points, it was almost worst case scenario.
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Speaker 2: It was zero for zero points. She got no credit for an attempt of any kind.
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Speaker 4: Right, that doesn't seem fair. I know those are the rules, but that just it seems.
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Speaker 3: Like, wow, you did two more than any of us could do, so at least maybe you could get credit for one too, or maybe that would have skaters not going for it as much, knowing it's all or nothing. But it just seems so unfair because it's not as if she fell.
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Speaker 4: She didn't even fall.
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Speaker 3: And she doesn't have a shot of even getting on the podium period.
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Speaker 2: But falling her score re least been good enough to keep her in range, right in some kind of shooting distance of the ones at the top, So she knows, and again she knows she's out of it. She knows she's out of it. It was just one of these horrific Olympic moments. But they seem to be stacking up for American skaters and many American athletes, the ones at the very top, some of the biggest faces have been faltering in significant ways. But stay here, we'll explain why this is now. Once again, what three times in the same week we have seen Americans have a very strange, difficult, unexpected, even shocking turn on the ice. All right, what a Olympics. It's been robes for Americas. There are still options for a couple of big stars. I can't remember Mikayla Shiffrin, who has still not medaled in the Olympics yet.
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Speaker 1: I think she has one more event.
00:09:17
Speaker 2: She does, Ilia mallanin some of the biggest names, the biggest faces.
00:09:23
Speaker 3: Lindsay Vaughan obviously, who now yes, and this speeds get I was gonna say, Lindsay now is just saying even the surgeries that her leg injury is worse than originally considered. So her news has gone from bad to worse now as we're following her recovery.
00:09:39
Speaker 2: Just those two Ilia Mallan, and it's like a freak Olympics. Look, things happen, but man, when they happen to your biggest stars on the biggest stage. You scratch your head about what God's name is going on.
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Speaker 1: And this young lady today.
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Speaker 2: Robes, she's a three time US champ, she's our best for four years in a row almost now and a rotation and half a second at the Olympics and it's over.
00:10:05
Speaker 1: That is just some weird's.
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Speaker 4: Going on, I know.
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Speaker 3: And I feel bad because I was continuing to talk about Lindsay Vaughn, but you were trying to reference Aaron Jackson as well, who was the gold medalist speed skater and a trailblazer.
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Speaker 4: She ended up in fifth.
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Speaker 3: So all of the athletes who you've been seeing on commercials, who are Team USA's best shots at gold medals or certainly any metals, it feels as though, even maybe seeing yourself in those commercials, seeing people expect great things from you, perhaps just and it's been talked about the pressure, the Olympic pressure, when you're singled out as our best chance, that this is the moment where you sink or swim, And it seems at least this time around, most of our athletes under that kind of scrutiny and pressure have sunk.
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Speaker 2: Look, it's it's the Olympics and these things happen. As your grandma would say, these things happen. These folks have been competing on an elite level for a long time. They know how to handle pressure. The quad God admitted that he wasn't ready for it, and that's okay, But to see his performance it was shocking. It was stunning to see him out there. He looks like a fish out of water at times. Mikaela Schiffrin is the greatest world champion skier we ever had. Can't win a medal in two can't win a medal. I'm saying these things. We talk about pressure and all these things. This seems freakish and flukeish. You know more about the story of the ice dancers, right the Americans.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and that seemed to be that was nothing that was their doing or their poor performance. They're dealing with the frustration of having a French judge give the French ice dancing team scoring them seven points seven to one points higher than the US team. That is that is suspicious, to say the least. And yet despite the demands for an investigation, the Olympic Committee decided that they were going to stand by this French judge. So they just simply, it's chalk and baits. That's I was trying to think of. I love Chalk and Bates, not ais in Choco and Evan Bates. But yes, they ended up getting silver. But from the reaction from most people who watched that event and watched that competition, most people believed that they were robbed of gold.
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Speaker 2: So again I add that, oh, that scenario to this category of freakish, flucid bad luck. And it happens at the Olympics, but it's happening in these unexpected ways. We didn't expect Eliot Mallina to have that performance. We don't expect the French. Just after we watched that ice dancing performance, what do you mean somebody thought the French were seven points better? And then today our very best, she is our very best.
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Speaker 1: She is now.
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Speaker 2: Alyssa Lou won the World championship last year. She was freaking amazing and.
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Speaker 4: She is in metal contention.
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Speaker 3: We should point out definitely wanted to give her props for an incredible and incredible routine.
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Speaker 4: She's in third.
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Speaker 3: She's in third right now, and look, the commentators were explaining that the ranking necessarily isn't it doesn't matter right now but the points do, and the points carry over, as you pointed out, so certainly she has she is well within metal contention and could even do better. But there were so many phenomenal skaters we were saying as we watched unfortunately Amber Glenn and others fall. We also saw several other skaters get personal bests, like their best score. So it's one of those things where adrenaline either works for you and you deliver the best performance of your life, or it works against you, and you and you and you just falter under pressure.
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Speaker 1: That is a very good point. We saw it.
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Speaker 2: There's a little you see it on the f you've been watching a little monitor down there where pull up scores. You'll see a little SB or a PEB, and that's what it stands for, a personal best or a season's best, and you feel good for them. So many of them skated the absolutely some of them the very best they've ever skated in their careers was today.
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Speaker 4: It feels like it's either that or the other.
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Speaker 3: It's very like every now and then, sure you get maybe a mediocre meh, that does happen to but I feel like, more more often than not, when you have that kind of pressure. You either excel or you just fall flat.
00:14:29
Speaker 1: Man.
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Speaker 2: Some of those scores the season's best and personal best those folks put up they needed to in order to compete with the amber Glynn. Amber Glynn could have an average night and they would have to have a personal best to catch up.
00:14:41
Speaker 1: That's not what happens. She just damn robes. This sport is awful.
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Speaker 4: And I know and remember, oh it's awful.
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Speaker 1: It's like gymnastics.
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Speaker 2: One slip in the last four years of your life, and you know it.
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Speaker 3: As an athlete, you know it. You know it the entire time. And Ilia Malanin Actually it was cool. We was interviewed today and we were watching him and I thought it was really beautiful for him to be in a headspace now talking about all the support he received from Simone Biles, from Snoop Dogg. Oh, he said, Tom Brady, he was naming all the people. Yes, that was the first name. I used it last, but he used it first.
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Speaker 4: But speaking people who know what it's.
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Speaker 3: Like to have the highest of highs and then when things don't go well, they know how important it is for those athletes to still feel supported, even more so than when they're at the top. So I kept thinking, you know what, Ilia's in the stands right now, we saw him. He is going to be the first person probably to rush after Amber Glenn and say you're gonna be okay, you got this.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 3: Amber's twenty eight. I believe he's just twenty one. Don't know if she has another Olympics in her or not. And she certainly still gets to skate again on Thursday. And if you think about it, Ilia was on top after the short program. When he competed, he was far ahead of everyone else's gold was absolutely his to lose.
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Speaker 2: Look what happened, and so that's why you gotta That's why we play the game, is what they say. You never know what could happen. Anything freaky could happen. So we'll be keeping an eye. But this is this is it's a tough sport. Ropes when just that that can cost you the last four years of your life. It's just tough. It's what the Olympics is. It's the beauty of it and it's the agony of it as well. But don't know, Yamber, but man, we are rooting for you.
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Speaker 4: And we can take inspiration from it.
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Speaker 3: Just to see them do what they do and even when they mess up, Look how many of us mess up in much smaller ways every day, in little ways.
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Speaker 4: Just you think about that.
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Speaker 3: Nobody sees it, and it's just it's just perspective and watching these phenomenal athletes screw up even after all the practice, even after all the hard work, that is what it is to be human. And we can draw inspiration for them to get up, pull themselves literally physically up. And she's going to be competing again in two days after the agony of today.
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Speaker 2: It's not a comparison to Amber Glenn and what might have been in her head. But man, if you want to hear or get inspired or listen to Alyssa Loop, the young lady who's sitting in third now, the young lady who retired at sixteen and then made a comeback to skating just in the past year or so, won the World championship last year.
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Speaker 1: Just a great story. Great she skates with such.
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Speaker 2: Ease, hands, joy, and she did the post interview but she simply said, I'm having a good time and I'm smiling under this pressure because I don't give a damn about the result. If I fall, I fall, and I'm gonna get up because I'm already here.
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Speaker 1: I've already won.
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Speaker 2: She that attitude is how she explained maybe she should teach classes, but she's saying nothing.
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Speaker 1: The outcome doesn't matter.
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Speaker 4: She wasn't she wasn't. You know what it here's the difference.
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Speaker 3: You see someone like Amber Glenn who's been told you can win gold, you might win gold, so she has it in her head, I need to win gold. When you listen to to Alyssa, she was like, yeah, that wasn't my goal. I just wanted to come out here and skate because I love to skate. And she can say this after taking a step back from all the pressure you and so she learned a lot during that time when she took a step back from the sport. But to hear her say it and you believe it. The way she skated, it was obvious. She's not just saying that because she did well. She skated like that, like I'm here to have fun. Look what I can do. Look at this world, and let's see what happens to.
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Speaker 2: All the American ladies. We are rooting for you, We are certainly proud of you, and you have given us. I mean, we sat in front of the TV for three hours we set up I'm not kidding. We heard every note of every song that was played in every routine and saw every move and every score today. We were that into it and invested in it. But Amberglenn went twenty eighth of twenty nine today, so was at the very end we saw this happen. But folks, if you do get a chance to check it out, please it's worth the watch. It's worth just seeing what they face and kind of what happened tonight. But we appreciate you as always spending some time with us. We wanted to hop on, We would have hopped on sooner, but we had to wipe our eyes a little bit too for missus Amberglin. So we appreciate just always listening to us on TJ Home. Don't man of my dear Amy Robock. We will talk to you soon
Speaker 1: Hey, that folks.
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Speaker 2: It is Tuesday, February seventeenth, and it has happened to Americans on the ice again.
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Speaker 1: At the Olympics. What is going on?
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Speaker 2: We just watched another heart breaking moment from one of the biggest ice skating stars that we have and with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Roobes. First, there was the ice dancers that got screwed out of a goal with controversy overscoring.
00:00:36
Speaker 1: Then how the hell did that happens?
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Speaker 2: To the quad god and we are seeing we just witnessed and you all as we're recording this, we are minutes away of watching another heartbreaker for the Americans.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Amber Glenn, who was and a lot of folks had pinned their hopes on her getting gold. Of course, this is the premiere metal. When you watch the Winteral limb and if you remember all those years of watching as a kid, you remember who won, especially when they were Team USA, the gold medal in women's figure skating. This is the moment and we haven't had a gold medalist in decades, so this is a big deal.
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Speaker 1: That's proper context.
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Speaker 2: And we've been talking about I was asking you there is no bigger event, and bigger gold medal in the Summer Games, and the all around women's title in gymnastics, and the gold in women's figure skating.
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Speaker 1: This is what we're talking about. This is how big of a deal it is.
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Speaker 2: That context is important because if you're going after that thing and you're are biggest star, she had very high hopes.
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Speaker 4: She did, and so many people were rooting her on.
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Speaker 3: She skated to Madonna's uh wait not, I was gonna say it like a It's not like a version.
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Speaker 4: It's like a prayer. I almost had like a version, and no, it was like a prayer. But we even saw coverage. It was everywhere.
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Speaker 3: Madonna sent her a video message saying, go for gold. How can you not win? I've seen you skate singing or skating to my song.
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Speaker 4: You know you get it.
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Speaker 3: So like all that pressure and then in the stands, I saw Ilia Melanin.
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Speaker 1: You also saw Snoop.
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Speaker 2: You also saw Artha Steward, Greygaejeon the actor. You saw this is the premiere event and people are there. Look, we got three American darlings competing in this event. She might be Darling number one in different ways. But the what they call them are ice angels. What the nickname they.
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Speaker 1: Have for these young ladies, but they're just superb.
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Speaker 4: I think Blade Angel, Blade ain't that wonderful.
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Speaker 2: Everything is perfect, and she is just the great personality, great energy, and great at her job because she is the three time reigning US figure skating champion. We say all that to say this, folks. The women's figure stating figure skating competition started today. We watched every single second of every single skater she was. She went next to last, I believe, out of the next to last, yet out of twenty nine skaters. So we set those anticipation, couldn't wait for her to get out there and ropes.
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Speaker 1: She had a flawless routine going.
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Speaker 3: She did, in fact, the hardest triple axule. I believe that she'd been practicing NonStop. She nailed it right out of the gate and she heard I guess we can only rely on what we heard. The experts says they were watching her routine, but they said she did her hardest tricks first and did them flawlessly. So the last turn that she had the easiest one of them all, she didn't complete the triple. She only did a double, and so she lost seven points. So when you were going for gold, sometimes you can't lose one point, you can't lose a half a point. She lost seven points.
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Speaker 2: And she landed in thirteenth place. Now what this means, folks, is if you don't understand them. Frankly, that's not insulting anybody else. I need to I had to look up and confirm how this worked. But the scores from today in the short program transfer over to the longer program. The free skate is what they call it, which will be Thursday, and then your combined scores will determine who's the gold medalist. If you're that far back, you practically have no shot against the people at the top who are at their best. They're likely not going to fall that far back to you. She and I say that not because I know ice skating so well. I know the look on her face and robes. It was over. As soon as that routine ended, and you looked at her. She knew it, and because she knew it, we knew her chances are done.
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Speaker 3: She sat on the ice and she sobbed, and as she was skating to her coaches. The first thing, and this is what is so heartbreaking, The first thing that she said to her coaches, I had it. She was skating for gold, and she knew she had the gold literally within reach, except for that last jump, that last jump turn, and in that one they were saying, they put it like this, the perspective one missed turnrotation's one missed rotation was the difference between gold metal and nothing.
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Speaker 4: Nothing.
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Speaker 1: You work four.
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Speaker 2: Years and one rotation in the air that lasts a half second, it's all it takes, and it's over for this young lady.
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Speaker 1: It was devastating to watch you all, and some of you all.
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Speaker 2: Going to listen to this, and there are replays that will be on later on primetime on NBC. I encourage you to watch it and just take in. I guess Roves just another one of these incredible Olympic stories of this is just what happens sometimes.
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Speaker 1: And your heart breaks for this young lady.
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Speaker 2: She's full tears by the time she gets off the ice, and she had to be held up, she had to be consoled. She was hugging, and then she sat in neck was they called the kiss and what booth, the Kiss and Cry booth, right where they sit there waiting on their scores, crying the entire.
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Speaker 3: Time, almost yes, And it was her coach who actually had to even bring her her jacket.
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Speaker 4: She was so upset.
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Speaker 3: You know, you usually see them get up and sit and wait for their score with their jackets. It's cold on the ice. She was so distraught. She just went straight there, didn't pass anything to collect herself. Her coaches were bringing her things. She was just completely out of it. She was beside herself. It was so heartbreaking to see her, to know that just that. I mean, I can't imagine how many times as an athlete you would just replay that moment over and over and over and just think, why, why, why why couldn't I have just completed that rotation?
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Speaker 2: And here's the thing, folks, Look, we know that anything could happen, but they are about six women ahead of her that would have to have the worst skates of their lives for her to have a chance of getting a medal. If she even has the best skate of her life on Thursday. The way these scores work, Rose, it's just she's so far back. Look, if she could have she do I have this right. If she had completed the turn but then stumbled and fell, that would have cost.
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Speaker 3: Her less correct than what she did correct, because we've even seen people metal who have fallen. You can fall as long as you've completed whatever technical requirement there was for you to get credit for something. So because just one rotation short of a triple, she did a double that cost her seven points, it was almost worst case scenario.
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Speaker 2: It was zero for zero points. She got no credit for an attempt of any kind.
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Speaker 4: Right, that doesn't seem fair. I know those are the rules, but that just it seems.
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Speaker 3: Like, wow, you did two more than any of us could do, so at least maybe you could get credit for one too, or maybe that would have skaters not going for it as much, knowing it's all or nothing. But it just seems so unfair because it's not as if she fell.
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Speaker 4: She didn't even fall.
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Speaker 3: And she doesn't have a shot of even getting on the podium period.
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Speaker 2: But falling her score re least been good enough to keep her in range, right in some kind of shooting distance of the ones at the top, So she knows, and again she knows she's out of it. She knows she's out of it. It was just one of these horrific Olympic moments. But they seem to be stacking up for American skaters and many American athletes, the ones at the very top, some of the biggest faces have been faltering in significant ways. But stay here, we'll explain why this is now. Once again, what three times in the same week we have seen Americans have a very strange, difficult, unexpected, even shocking turn on the ice. All right, what a Olympics. It's been robes for Americas. There are still options for a couple of big stars. I can't remember Mikayla Shiffrin, who has still not medaled in the Olympics yet.
00:09:15
Speaker 1: I think she has one more event.
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Speaker 2: She does, Ilia mallanin some of the biggest names, the biggest faces.
00:09:23
Speaker 3: Lindsay Vaughan obviously, who now yes, and this speeds get I was gonna say, Lindsay now is just saying even the surgeries that her leg injury is worse than originally considered. So her news has gone from bad to worse now as we're following her recovery.
00:09:39
Speaker 2: Just those two Ilia Mallan, and it's like a freak Olympics. Look, things happen, but man, when they happen to your biggest stars on the biggest stage. You scratch your head about what God's name is going on.
00:09:52
Speaker 1: And this young lady today.
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Speaker 2: Robes, she's a three time US champ, she's our best for four years in a row almost now and a rotation and half a second at the Olympics and it's over.
00:10:05
Speaker 1: That is just some weird's.
00:10:06
Speaker 4: Going on, I know.
00:10:07
Speaker 3: And I feel bad because I was continuing to talk about Lindsay Vaughn, but you were trying to reference Aaron Jackson as well, who was the gold medalist speed skater and a trailblazer.
00:10:18
Speaker 4: She ended up in fifth.
00:10:20
Speaker 3: So all of the athletes who you've been seeing on commercials, who are Team USA's best shots at gold medals or certainly any metals, it feels as though, even maybe seeing yourself in those commercials, seeing people expect great things from you, perhaps just and it's been talked about the pressure, the Olympic pressure, when you're singled out as our best chance, that this is the moment where you sink or swim, And it seems at least this time around, most of our athletes under that kind of scrutiny and pressure have sunk.
00:10:54
Speaker 2: Look, it's it's the Olympics and these things happen. As your grandma would say, these things happen. These folks have been competing on an elite level for a long time. They know how to handle pressure. The quad God admitted that he wasn't ready for it, and that's okay, But to see his performance it was shocking. It was stunning to see him out there. He looks like a fish out of water at times. Mikaela Schiffrin is the greatest world champion skier we ever had. Can't win a medal in two can't win a medal. I'm saying these things. We talk about pressure and all these things. This seems freakish and flukeish. You know more about the story of the ice dancers, right the Americans.
00:11:36
Speaker 3: Yes, and that seemed to be that was nothing that was their doing or their poor performance. They're dealing with the frustration of having a French judge give the French ice dancing team scoring them seven points seven to one points higher than the US team. That is that is suspicious, to say the least. And yet despite the demands for an investigation, the Olympic Committee decided that they were going to stand by this French judge. So they just simply, it's chalk and baits. That's I was trying to think of. I love Chalk and Bates, not ais in Choco and Evan Bates. But yes, they ended up getting silver. But from the reaction from most people who watched that event and watched that competition, most people believed that they were robbed of gold.
00:12:28
Speaker 2: So again I add that, oh, that scenario to this category of freakish, flucid bad luck. And it happens at the Olympics, but it's happening in these unexpected ways. We didn't expect Eliot Mallina to have that performance. We don't expect the French. Just after we watched that ice dancing performance, what do you mean somebody thought the French were seven points better? And then today our very best, she is our very best.
00:12:56
Speaker 1: She is now.
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Speaker 2: Alyssa Lou won the World championship last year. She was freaking amazing and.
00:13:01
Speaker 4: She is in metal contention.
00:13:02
Speaker 3: We should point out definitely wanted to give her props for an incredible and incredible routine.
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Speaker 4: She's in third.
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Speaker 3: She's in third right now, and look, the commentators were explaining that the ranking necessarily isn't it doesn't matter right now but the points do, and the points carry over, as you pointed out, so certainly she has she is well within metal contention and could even do better. But there were so many phenomenal skaters we were saying as we watched unfortunately Amber Glenn and others fall. We also saw several other skaters get personal bests, like their best score. So it's one of those things where adrenaline either works for you and you deliver the best performance of your life, or it works against you, and you and you and you just falter under pressure.
00:13:49
Speaker 1: That is a very good point. We saw it.
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Speaker 2: There's a little you see it on the f you've been watching a little monitor down there where pull up scores. You'll see a little SB or a PEB, and that's what it stands for, a personal best or a season's best, and you feel good for them. So many of them skated the absolutely some of them the very best they've ever skated in their careers was today.
00:14:12
Speaker 4: It feels like it's either that or the other.
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Speaker 3: It's very like every now and then, sure you get maybe a mediocre meh, that does happen to but I feel like, more more often than not, when you have that kind of pressure. You either excel or you just fall flat.
00:14:29
Speaker 1: Man.
00:14:29
Speaker 2: Some of those scores the season's best and personal best those folks put up they needed to in order to compete with the amber Glynn. Amber Glynn could have an average night and they would have to have a personal best to catch up.
00:14:41
Speaker 1: That's not what happens. She just damn robes. This sport is awful.
00:14:47
Speaker 4: And I know and remember, oh it's awful.
00:14:50
Speaker 1: It's like gymnastics.
00:14:51
Speaker 2: One slip in the last four years of your life, and you know it.
00:14:56
Speaker 3: As an athlete, you know it. You know it the entire time. And Ilia Malanin Actually it was cool. We was interviewed today and we were watching him and I thought it was really beautiful for him to be in a headspace now talking about all the support he received from Simone Biles, from Snoop Dogg. Oh, he said, Tom Brady, he was naming all the people. Yes, that was the first name. I used it last, but he used it first.
00:15:24
Speaker 4: But speaking people who know what it's.
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Speaker 3: Like to have the highest of highs and then when things don't go well, they know how important it is for those athletes to still feel supported, even more so than when they're at the top. So I kept thinking, you know what, Ilia's in the stands right now, we saw him. He is going to be the first person probably to rush after Amber Glenn and say you're gonna be okay, you got this.
00:15:45
Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 3: Amber's twenty eight. I believe he's just twenty one. Don't know if she has another Olympics in her or not. And she certainly still gets to skate again on Thursday. And if you think about it, Ilia was on top after the short program. When he competed, he was far ahead of everyone else's gold was absolutely his to lose.
00:16:06
Speaker 2: Look what happened, and so that's why you gotta That's why we play the game, is what they say. You never know what could happen. Anything freaky could happen. So we'll be keeping an eye. But this is this is it's a tough sport. Ropes when just that that can cost you the last four years of your life. It's just tough. It's what the Olympics is. It's the beauty of it and it's the agony of it as well. But don't know, Yamber, but man, we are rooting for you.
00:16:31
Speaker 4: And we can take inspiration from it.
00:16:32
Speaker 3: Just to see them do what they do and even when they mess up, Look how many of us mess up in much smaller ways every day, in little ways.
00:16:41
Speaker 4: Just you think about that.
00:16:42
Speaker 3: Nobody sees it, and it's just it's just perspective and watching these phenomenal athletes screw up even after all the practice, even after all the hard work, that is what it is to be human. And we can draw inspiration for them to get up, pull themselves literally physically up. And she's going to be competing again in two days after the agony of today.
00:17:03
Speaker 2: It's not a comparison to Amber Glenn and what might have been in her head. But man, if you want to hear or get inspired or listen to Alyssa Loop, the young lady who's sitting in third now, the young lady who retired at sixteen and then made a comeback to skating just in the past year or so, won the World championship last year.
00:17:21
Speaker 1: Just a great story. Great she skates with such.
00:17:25
Speaker 2: Ease, hands, joy, and she did the post interview but she simply said, I'm having a good time and I'm smiling under this pressure because I don't give a damn about the result. If I fall, I fall, and I'm gonna get up because I'm already here.
00:17:41
Speaker 1: I've already won.
00:17:42
Speaker 2: She that attitude is how she explained maybe she should teach classes, but she's saying nothing.
00:17:47
Speaker 1: The outcome doesn't matter.
00:17:49
Speaker 4: She wasn't she wasn't. You know what it here's the difference.
00:17:52
Speaker 3: You see someone like Amber Glenn who's been told you can win gold, you might win gold, so she has it in her head, I need to win gold. When you listen to to Alyssa, she was like, yeah, that wasn't my goal. I just wanted to come out here and skate because I love to skate. And she can say this after taking a step back from all the pressure you and so she learned a lot during that time when she took a step back from the sport. But to hear her say it and you believe it. The way she skated, it was obvious. She's not just saying that because she did well. She skated like that, like I'm here to have fun. Look what I can do. Look at this world, and let's see what happens to.
00:18:30
Speaker 2: All the American ladies. We are rooting for you, We are certainly proud of you, and you have given us. I mean, we sat in front of the TV for three hours we set up I'm not kidding. We heard every note of every song that was played in every routine and saw every move and every score today. We were that into it and invested in it. But Amberglenn went twenty eighth of twenty nine today, so was at the very end we saw this happen. But folks, if you do get a chance to check it out, please it's worth the watch. It's worth just seeing what they face and kind of what happened tonight. But we appreciate you as always spending some time with us. We wanted to hop on, We would have hopped on sooner, but we had to wipe our eyes a little bit too for missus Amberglin. So we appreciate just always listening to us on TJ Home. Don't man of my dear Amy Robock. We will talk to you soon