Eileen Gu, Alyssa Liu, and Chloe Kim: Milan 2026’s most influential women athletes

Good morning, everyone! Have you been watching the Olympics so far? We still have a few weeks ahead. If you haven’t started watching yet, here are some of the athletes you should tune in for:

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**Eileen Gu. **One of the highest-paid female athletes in the world, the freestyle skier, who represents China, already took silver in women’s freeski slopestyle. She still has big air and halfpipe events to go.

**Alyssa Liu. **Her story is so inspirational. She was the youngest-ever U.S. figure skating national champion at 13 and retired at 16 after experiencing burnout. Now 20, she’s back and has completely taken control of her experience and narrative, embracing joy above all else. So far, she’s come in second in the team event women’s short program. Team USA won gold in the team event, so she already has a gold medal. Women’s singles start next week—and an American woman hasn’t taken gold in more than 20 years.

Other athletes are practicing healthy mindsets too. Superstar Chloe Kim has said that what she’s looking for in Milan is to know she “did [her] best.” She injured her shoulder in January and hasn’t competed on a halfpipe in almost a year—putting more eyes on her comeback. She hasn’t competed yet in Milan, so stay tuned for more.

**Amber Glenn. **She’s the first openly queer woman to skate for Team USA in Olympic women’s singles. Sometimes, she does a victory lap with a pride flag. She’s 26, which makes her the oldest U.S. Olympic singles skater in a century. She already won gold in the team event, and like Liu is a contender to break the 20-year American women’s singles drought.

Canada’s Madeline Schizas. I’m kind of obsessed; she went viral for asking her college professor for an extension on a reflection paper and sent Team Canada’s press release to prove she was competing as a figure skater. She got the extension!

**Breezy Johnson **already won the women’s downhill gold—the first U.S. gold medal of the 2026 Games. The 30-year-old Alpine skier also has a comeback story.

And of course so many fans are still thinking of Lindsey Vonn. She pursued an audacious comeback, coming out of retirement to go for one last Olympics at age 41. Then, she suffered a ruptured ACL just before the start of the Games, persevered through it—and then crashed after her arm hooked a gate during the women’s downhill event on Sunday (the same event Johnson won). She suffered a complex tibia fracture. She said she has “no regrets.” “Knowing I stood there having a chance to win was a victory in and of itself,” she posted on Instagram.

Emma Hinchliffe
emma.hinchliffe@fortune.com

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ALSO IN THE HEADLINES

**Epstein files fallout hits a major talent agency. **Chappell Roan said she’s leaving Wasserman after founder Casey Wasserman’s communications with Jeffrey Epstein were revealed. He’s facing pressure to divest or sell the company; he’s also the chairman of the organizing committee for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Variety

**And Ghislaine Maxwell was deposed on Monday. **She declined to answer questions from House lawmakers—but seemed to indicate that if President Trump ended her prison sentence, she would testify that neither he nor former President Bill Clinton had done anything wrong in their connections with Epstein, per NPR. Meanwhile, the House lawmakers who reviewed unredacted versions of the Epstein files yesterday say at least six powerful figures were improperly shielded without clear legal justification.

**OpenAI rolls out ads. **Testing of advertising just started for ChatGPT users on free and low-cost plans. This is one of the things former Instacart CEO and now OpenAI’s CEO of Applications Fidji Simo was hired to build.

**Menstrual hygiene is now part of the right to life and privacy in India. **The country’s Supreme Court ruled that Article 21 of its constitution includes menstrual hygiene, which has been a huge barrier to girls’ education in India. Times of India

**Mellody Hobson puts $250 million behind women’s sports. **Ariel Investments’ latest fund plans to acquire stakes in teams and leagues in the U.S. and Europe—and it isn’t done raising capital yet. SBJ

**Access to GLP-1s is just the first step for patients. **In a _Fortune _op-ed, Weight Watchers CEO Tara Comonte weighs in on what was missing from those Super Bowl ads. “What much of the broader conversation still overlooks is what happens next. How do people sustain results over time? And what does a healthy, livable lifestyle look like, both on and off medication?” she writes. Weight Watchers’ latest strategy is to build community and support for people on GLP-1s. Fortune

ON MY RADAR

Robby Hoffman’s slow and steady rise to the top Washington Post

‘Going natural’ in the age of facial optimization The Nation

Under the Mormon influence: How the women of Utah blogged their way into American hearts and wallets NY Mag

PARTING WORDS

“I don’t want the fact that I may be editing Vogue now to mean that I’m someone who’s intimidating to talk to at kindergarten drop-off. That’s just not who I am.”

— New _Vogue _editor Chloe Malle, in a new joint interview alongside her predecessor and boss, Anna Wintour. The first issue of Malle’s _Vogue _tenure is out today, with Rosalía on the cover.

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