Seven minutes.
Seven minutes every four years to show the world what you can do.
That is the life of a figure skater.
To be sure, there are competitions beyond the Winter Olympics. World Championships, National Championships, and more. But every four years the eyes of the world focus on the skaters on the eyes, and those athletes have just even minutes to showcase everything they have been working on while the world was not watching. Three minutes in a short program and, if you are lucky enough to advance, four more in the free skate.
For all but a few seconds in Tuesday’s short program, Amber Glenn was perfect. For one blink
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