As long as she spins 3½ times, she need land only once to make U.S. figure skating history as the first American woman to complete a triple axel at the Olympics. Like the other two American ...

8, she had to be optimistic about the coming figure skating season. Glenn, 20, was landing a triple Axel -- performed in competition by only four American women in history -- on about four out of ...

sailed through the air with a 3-rotation jump at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang to become the first American woman to land the high-risk triple axel during an Olympic competition. Just 21 seconds ...

American figure skater Mirai Nagasu did something in PyeongChang that no other U.S. woman has done before her: Land a triple axel in the Olympics. The triple axel is a maneuver that only two ...

They planned for Nagasu to practice the jump in the arena, so she could get used to how it would feel to land a triple axel on Olympic ice. Although she didn’t attempt the jump while she ...

Mirai Nagasu became the first ever American woman to land a triple axel at the Winter Olympics, and only the third overall. Only two other American women have even landed it at any competition ...

She also made history as the second woman to land a triple axel in international competition. In "I, Tonya," the upcoming biopic of her life, it's clear the triple axel was one of her proudest ...

Because this move requires an extra half-rotation to land backward, it's generally considered the most difficult jump. So, back to the original question -- what is a triple axel? It's three ...

But this day was different. Taylor, who in 1978 became the first man to land a ratified triple Axel in competition, was told that 17-year-old American Ilia Malinin performed the first quadruple ...

151; -- Former Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding made history as the first American woman to land a triple axel jump in competition. In an interview with ABC News’ Amy Robach, Harding recalled ...