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Power and Poise

When Amber Glenn performs her figure-skating routines, her face radiates with emotion. Her gestures are delicate and expressive, her movements quick and powerful. Even if you’re not knowledgeable about ice skating, she’s just plain fun to watch.

The Dallas-based skater’s 1.2 million TikTok followers would agree. The cachet she’s built on the video app and her second-place finish at the 2021 U.S. Figure Skating Championships—combined with her announcing she is bisexual in 2019—make Glenn a compelling figure in the world of figure skating.

By the time you read this, we’ll know if the 22-year-old who grew up in Plano is one of the six female skaters representing the United States at February’s Winter Olympics in Beijing. Glenn was a strong contender among the dozens

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