Olympics 2026 Women’s Preview (100th Episode!)

We preview the Women's individual competition at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games and give our predictions for Kaori Sakamoto, Ami Nakai, Alysa Liu, Niina Petrokina, Amber Glenn, and more.

February 16, 2026

Olympic Women’s Figure Skating PREVIEW — Milano Cortina Winter Games

The final competitive figure skating event of the 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Milano Cortina is upon us! The Women’s competition gives us the deepest field of skaters who are likely to challenge for a medal. Expect the competition to be fierce as these women all hunt for their Olympic moment.

It’s our 100th episode! We forgot to talk about it… But we really appreciate you joining us for this milestone, and thanks to everyone who has supported us along the way!

We discuss the women we perceive as the top eight contenders, based on best scores of the season: Kaori Sakamoto, Ami Nakai, Alysa Liu, Niina Petrokina, Amber Glenn, Mone Chiba, and Adeliia Petrosian. But we’re not counting out any of the dark horse podium possibilities, including Jia Shin, Anastasiia Gubanova, Lara Naki Gutmann, Sofia Samodelkina, and Haein Lee.

We also take some time to address feedback on our previous episode about the men’s olympic final — specifically many commenters’ misunderstanding of the episode’s opening observations.

Chapters

00:00 Intro
01:16 Addressing the previous episodes and responses
12:26 Top Women’s Competitors
37:41 The Dark Horse Candidates
49:04 Podium Predictions
51:40 Prediction Success So Far; State of the Games
55:44 Wrap-up

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