American figure skater Amber Glenn didn't fall, so why did her score plummet? An "invalid element" turned a clean skate into ...
The reigning U.S. champion, Glenn arrived in Milan with hopes of winning an individual gold medal. Just two fateful seconds ...
The Olympian demonstrated the jump three days after she couldn't execute it during her short program performance in the women ...
Had Glenn fallen, she would have had an automatic one-point deduction — a better outcome than the zero earned for an invalid element.
Gold medalist Nathan Chen broke down what went wrong in Glenn’s performance on Tuesday.
What makes it so impressive? Any axel jump–single, double, triple, or quad–actually involves an extra half rotation. So a single axel is really 1.5 turns in the air, the double 2.5, and so on. So yes, ...