ST. LOUIS — Now that the U.S. figure skating championships are complete, now comes the part everyone is anticipating: Who will make the 2026 Winter Olympics?
Figure skating doesn’t have your typical Olympic selection process where spots are determined at the U.S. championships or trials. Instead, the U.S. Figure Skating’s International Committee looks at an athlete’s body of work from the start of 2025 through the 2026 U.S. championships.
The U.S. will send 16 skaters – three men, three women, two pairs and three ice dance pairs – to the Milano Cortina Games and will announce the roster Sunday. But there is a pretty good sense of who is a roster certainty while others are on the bubble. We break down the candidates, from locks to longshots.
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The cream of the crop, all of these skaters have cemented their spots in Milano Cortina. Malinin and Glenn in singles, Chock and Bates in ice dance claimed national championships as the perfect send off to Italy.
