Glenn's triple axel helps lead her to the top of the women's event as Ilia Malinin finishes the day in front of the men's field.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/6213882

Amber Glenn becomes first LGBTQ+ woman to win U.S. Women’s Figure Skating Championship

“Being the first openly queer women’s champion is incredible,” Glenn said. “When I came out originally, I was terrified and I was scared it would affect my scores or something, but I didn’t care. It was worth it to see, over the last couple of years, the amount of young people that feel more comfortable in their environments at the rink.”

  • Deceptichum@kbin.social
    221·
    9 months ago

    was scared it would affect my scores or something

    Is women’s figure skating a traditionally conservative sport?

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      261·
      9 months ago

      It’s one of the typical “force your kids to focus their entire lives on X and ruin their bodies for it”-“competitions”, just evolved into the teenage-youngadult tail end of that. So it’s at least very traditional, I would assume that also means it’s massively conservative in the US.