Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu and Isabeau Levito are back on the ice at U.S. figure skating championships. Their free skates will determine the champion.

It was at a relatively minor event in upstate New York in September 2022 that Ilia Malinin, the self-anointed “Quad God” who was fast becoming the biggest name in figure skating, finally landed the jump that so many people had thought impossible.

Figure skating has been a key part of the Olympics, even before the first Winter Games in 1924 Figure skating has long been a cornerstone of the Olympics, pre-dating the inaugural Winter Games in 1924 with appearances at the Summer Games in 1908 and 1920.

Ilia Malinin, Amber Glenn, Jason Brown and others take the ice at the 2026 U.S. figure skating championships to seal their Winter Olympics fate.

Yet the stars-and-stripes weren’t the only flags flying high that night.

Netflix has just released its new teen ice-skating series, based on Jennifer Iacopelli's book. Headlined by Madelyn Keys and Cale Ambrozic, the series