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Adam Rippon is explaining why the women competing in figure skating at the 2026 Olympics are a must-watch.
The retired figure skater, 36, joined Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang on the February 11 episode of the Two Guys, Five Rings podcast where he broke down the skaters to watch at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympic Games, and as a former Olympian who earned a bronze medal in the team event in figure skating during the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, he knows what he's talking about.
After Yang asked about the "divadom" of the Team USA figure skating team, Rippon shared some background about his favorite "stan-worthy women" in the event, from Team USA's Alysa Liu and Isabeau Levito to Polish skater Katya Kurakova, who last season competed in cat ears and had a dramatic costume reveal mid-routine, and Italian Lara Naki Gutmann, who is skating to the Jaws theme song.
"Then we have [USA's] Amber Glenn, who is just phenomenal. She's so great," he said. "She just won her third national title in a row. She's the first woman to do that since [two-time Olympic medalist] Michelle Kwan. She has a triple axel — that's really her secret weapon against all of these women is that she can do the triple axel."
Rogers and Yang, cohosts of the Las Culturistas podcast, are back to follow the newest Olympic games with Two Guys, Five Rings, a collaboration with iHeartRadio and NBC Sports that brings listeners closer to the real stories of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympic Games, which runs February 6-22.
Follow along as Rogers and Yang highlight the best stories and unheard tales from the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics on Two Guys, Five Rings at iHeart.com.