Glenn fell short of medaling again just a month after her Olympic heartbreaker.
On Friday night in Prague, Glenn fell short of the podium in her second marquee figure skating competition this year after stumbling in the Milan Cortina Olympics. Glenn, who was chasing her first-ever World Championship medal,In another heartbreaker, Glenn will go home without a medal despite competing in her fourth straight World Championships.
After her disappointing result, Glenn took to social media to share a hopeful message while also detailing how “exhausted” she was after this season: “Thank you everyone for the love and support I'm okay! If anything I'm mentally, emotionally, physically exhausted after a season of extreme highs and lows. I did what I set out to do 6 years ago. Land a Triple axel and go to the Olympics and nothing will take that away from me,” Glenn wrote on X . Thank you everyone for the love and support🤍 I'm okay! If anything I'm mentally, emotionally, physically exhausted after a season of extreme highs and lows.Glenn competed alongside fellow Americans Isabeau Levito and Sarah Everhardt, who replaced Alysa Liu. None of the American women reached the podium. Instead, Japan legend Kaori Sakamoto got a fittingly triumphant send-off as the 2026 World Figure Skating Champion, followed by Mone Chiba and Belgium’s Nina Pinzarrone. “It sucks. What else can I say. I lost focus,” Glenn told reporters after the Worlds. “Thanks for all the support and love to all my fans. Thanks to the whole audience for your support. That was very sweet.”got tripped up by a brutal mistake she made in the short program that sent her tumbling down the leaderboard to 13th place. Glenn was able to rebound with an impressive free skate but couldn’t overcome her low initial score and placed fifth overall.that placed her in third entering the free and in prime position to medal. Despite a strong start to her free skate in which she nailed a triple axel, she made several errors in her technique and execution that ended up costing her what would have been her first-ever Worlds medal. Immediately after her final performance, Glenn was visibly disappointed and sat on the ice with her head hung low. Glenn scored 130.47 in her free skate, good for ninth among her competitors. She finished sixth overall with a total score of 203.12. In light of her struggles, Glenn’s defiant message shows she’s still proud of what she’s achieved in her skating career, including being one of the few women. The three-time U.S. champion received thunderous applause in Prague during her performances and has clearly won over the hearts of fans across the world, which should be considered a win in anyone’s book.Kristen Wong is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020 and has a bachelor’s in English and linguistics from Columbia University. Before joining SI in November 2023, Wong covered four NFL teams as an associate editor with the FanSided NFL network and worked as a staff writer for the brand’s flagship site. She is a lifelong Liverpool fan who enjoys solving crossword puzzles and hanging out at her neighborhood dive bar in NYC.
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