Milan, Italy: US champion Amber Glenn said Wednesday she may feel like a dinosaur competing in her first Winter Olympics at the age of 26 but she sees it as a great opportunity to put the US back on the women’s podium after a two-decade absence.
“At 26, I’m a little bit of a dinosaur in ladies’ singles, which is absurd, but it is true. So I’ve had to balance the pushing,” Glenn told a press conference in Milan. Glenn beat world champion Alysa Liu to lift a third US women’s title last month as they chase a first Olympic women’s individual figure skating medal since Sasha Cohen won silver in 2006.
“Because we’ve been here for so long, the intensity wore off pretty quickly, and now it’s just a really cool, fun experience, like we’re at sleep-away camp. It feels like I’m in a college dorm,” she said of her Olympic experience.
“I’m just trying to embrace that and remind myself that this is a great opportunity, not just a competition. But also, I am here to do a job. “I’ve just kept my head down and have been training.” The oldest woman to win an Olympic gold medal in singles figure skating was Britain’s Madge Syers, who won the 1908 Olympic ladies’ singles event at age 27.
