U.S. Figure Skating finalizes Olympic squad of 16

Key Highlights

• title Saturday night, also will be among the Olympic favorites, as will world champion Alysa Liu and women's teammate Amber Glenn, fresh off her third consecutive national title. U. S.
• Figure Skating announced its full squad of 16 athletes for the Winter Games during a made-for-TV celebration Sunday."I'm just so excited for the Olympic spirit, the Olympic environment," Malinin said.
• "Hopefully go for that Olympic gold."Malinin will be joined on the men's side by Andrew Torgashev, the all-or-nothing 24-year-old from Coral Springs, Florida, and Maxim Naumov, the 24-year-old from Simsbury, Connecticut, who fulfilled the hopes of his late parents by making the Olympic team. Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova were returning from a talent camp in Kansas when their American Airlines flight collided with a military helicopter and crashed into the icy Potomac River in January 2025.
• One of the last conversations they had with their son was about what it would take for him to follow in their footsteps by becoming an Olympian."We absolutely did it," Naumov said.
• "Every day, year after year, we talked about the Olympics.