Taylor Swift’s special role at the 2026 Winter Olympics has been revealed.
Ahead of the women’s figure skating competition in the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, the singer lent her voice to help introduce Team USA’s “Blade Angels.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to introduce you to Amber [Glenn], Alysa [Liu] and Isabeau [Levito]: three American Showgirls on ice, who will capture your heart with their stories,” Swift said in a voice-over, refrencing her latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” in an X video posted on Monday.
The “Lover” songstress, 36, went on to detail the “many battles” Glenn, 26, has fought to make it to the Olympics, noting, “The ones she lost have meant as much as the ones she wins.”
“Her superpower now is embracing the fight and daring the world to test her self-belief,” Swift explained as images of Glenn falling — and getting right back up — in previous competitions were shown.
Next was Alyssa, whom Swift explained had walked away from figure skating when she was 16, “but then came back … on her own terms” four years later.
“Joy fuels her now, every jump a celebration. Every performance, a testament to the beauty of knowing yourself,” she concluded before moving on to Levito.
Per Swift, Levito is “destiny personified,” explaining that her mom grew up in Milan and her “nonna lives exactly 13 minutes from the Olympic rink.”
“When you can skate like you’re meant to be out there, history has a funny way of showing up,” she added about the 16-year-old.
“They’re teammates and they’re friends. They call themselves the Blade Angels.”
Swift’s current single, “Opalite,” played in the background of the advert.
The Grammy-winning singer has been keeping up with the Olympics as she recently celebrated another Olympian’s big milestone: getting engaged.
On Feb. 12, Olympian skier Breezy Johnson posted on social media that her now-fiancé, Connor Watkins, had dropped to one knee as she arrived at the finish line of the women’s Super-G race in Italy.
Watkins referenced Swift’s song “The Alchemy” by printing inside the ring box, “Honestly, who are we to fight the alchemy?”
Without missing a beat, Swift commented on the post with more lyrics from the track, writing, “‘Where’s the trophy? He just comes running over to me’ CONGRATULATIONS!!!”
Aside from getting engaged, Johnson had gotten the gold medal in the women’s downhill on Feb. 8.
Like the athlete, Swift is also preparing to walk down the aisle with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce in the summer.
The Blade Angels will compete in the Women’s Short Program event at 12:45 p.m. ET on Tuesday. They will compete in the Free Skate event on Thursday at 1 p.m. ET.
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