Amber Glenn wanted to make the six-year-old inside her proud on Thursday night, who never thought she’d compete at the Winter Olympic Games.
After the lowest moment of her career two days ago in Milan, when a blunder took her from the top of the podium down to 13th place, the United States women’s champion fought back.
She landed a clean triple axel, didn’t fall once doing her routine, and put on a season’s best free skate to take her into medal contention with the final skaters of the night still to go.
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Following an emotional performance, Glenn opened up in a backstage interview about what was going through her mind in her final competitive skate of the Games.
“I made myself be happy about it,” Glenn admitted when talking about her routine on Thursday. “Deep down, of course, I know I could have done better, but I told myself enjoy it. I had my moment and my spiral, and told myself you just skated, stayed on your feet at the Olympics. I’m proud I had my moment.”
When asked how she was able to move past Tuesday’s performance and have the spirit to keep moving forward with such a strong closing performance, Glenn opened up about what kept her pushing through adversity.
“That six-year-old girl who never thought I’d ever be here,” she said. “I told myself to go out there, do your job, and I was working towards being able to have that [spiral] moment in the sequence. That was my reward. So it was chasing a goal.”
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