Music is interwoven into the fabric of figure skating with the athlete's choice of soundtrack doing tremendous work to color the complete picture. Getting the notes congruent with acrobatics on the ice is a tricky task and the Milan Cortina Games have brought with them an added wrinkle to the whole process as several skaters have run into copyright issues that force them to alter their programs at the last minute.
The steps to obtaining permission from musical artists can be a bit of a labyrinth so there's bound to be some miscommunications and misunderstandings. One of the more high-profile instances at the 2026 Olympics involves U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn and Seb McKinnon, who records under the name CLANN.
