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Michelle Wie West praises US women’s ‘incredible’ Milan Olympics showing

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The United States came away with 33 total medals at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games, and many came from the female athletes who showed out in Italy this month. 

There were 17 medals won by the U.S. female athletes, including eight of the 12 gold medals.

As many Americans enjoyed watching the events at home, LPGA Tour legend Michelle Wie West was in Milan watching the U.S. reach the podium in several events. 

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Michelle Wie attends Netflix’s “Happy Gilmore 2” New York Premiere at Jazz at Lincoln Center on July 21, 2025, in New York City.  (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

“I had the honor to be in Milan with Nike and got to see some Winter Olympic Games for the first time in person. It’s amazing to see all these competitors,” she told Fox News Digital in a recent interview. “Got to see [silver medalist] Chloe [Kim] do her halfpipe, and that was incredible. 

“Women’s hockey, I mean, incredible. I got to go to the first game, and it was just lights out.”

From Mia Manganello in speed skating, to Alysa Liu’s captivating gold medal in figure skating, Wie West admitted the Olympics made her a bit emotional seeing the athletes achieve their dreams.

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“This whole Winter Olympics season has been so — I think every Olympic season is so uplifting,” she said. “But this one in particular was so inspiring, and it feels like the female athletes really knocked it out of the park.

“I feel like every Olympics gets me really emotional. I can see athletes achieve their dreams and it’s so cool. It was really cool to see it in person.”

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Gold medalist Alysa Liu of Team United States poses for a photo during the medal ceremony for the Women’s Single Skating on day thirteen of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at Milano Ice Skating Arena on Feb. 19, 2026 in Milan, Italy.  (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Wie West also added that Lindsey Vonn’s “heartbreaking” crash, after competing through a torn ACL, was hard to see. However, “seeing her journey up until that moment and even afterwards has been so inspiring to me.”

Breanna Stewart, a three-time gold medalist with Team USA women’s basketball, shared Wie West’s sentiments about seeing American success overseas. 

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“I think there were so many events I really learned a lot about, whether it was bobsledding, or curling, or watching hockey,” she said. “Just wanting to cheer on the USA in whatever event they were doing, and see the pride and passion the athletes were having whenever they stepped up to compete with their sport.”

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LPGA player Michelle Wie West plays her shot from the 14th tee during the Golden Bear Pro-Am prior to the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday 2025 at Muirfield Village Golf Club on May 28, 2025, in Dublin, Ohio. (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)

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Stewart even mentioned getting “goosebumps” thinking about what it feels like getting a medal around your neck, and better yet, seeing the flag raise with the national anthem playing. 

“It’s really just satisfaction and justification of why you’re doing it and why you’ve gone through those hard moments and times,” she explained. “To me, the Olympics is the highest of the high. You’re playing your sport at the highest level against everyone else in the world, and you see that. It’s just a goosebump feeling no matter how many times you do it. Just the pride and knowing you’re representing something bigger than yourself always comes through full circle.”

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Megyn Kelly speculates why Savannah Guthrie appears with makeup and “puffy red eyes” in her renewed plea for Nancy Guthrie

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Conservative podcaster Megyn Kelly reacted to Savannah Guthrie’s latest plea for her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie. The Today host’s 84-year-old mother has been missing since February 1, and the law enforcement agencies have been investigating the case as a kidnapping. Meanwhile, Nancy Guthrie’s family posted several videos urging people to help find her.

On February 24, Savannah Guthrie announced a $1 million family reward in exchange for information leading to her mother’s recovery. On Friday, the media personality reshared a clip from her Tuesday plea video and reminded people that they could be anonymous while sharing tips.

Megyn Kelly, who has actively discussed the developments in the Nancy Guthrie case, discussed Savannah Guthrie’s latest video with former FBI agents Jim Fitzgerald and Maureen O’Connell. Kelly pointed out that Savannah Guthrie, in her first few videos, appeared without makeup and with puffy eyes. She suggested that the change might be a calculated move to deliver an impactful message.

“I think it’s somewhat of a sign of resilience that she managed to get any makeup on at all and her jacket on… I do think the puffy red eyes are an intentional choice because I’m sure they were authentic, and they could have been resolved had she really wanted to do that for a camera. But she probably made the choice to show people the pain she’s in,” Kelly stated.

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The podcaster said that there was no downside in telegraphing her true emotions to the public and the suspected kidnapper. Megyn Kelly asked Jim Fitzgerald whether, in his opinion, the Today host’s appearance and the video’s style were premeditated and produced after consultation with the FBI.

The former FBI agent said that in his profiling career, he had advised people how to appear before cameras while putting on a message. Fitzgerald said that while he had personally never gotten into the makeup category, he opined that someone might have advised it.

“So yeah, this is well coordinated… I’m certainly assuming there are profilers, behavioralists on the scene, certainly in touch with the family. They’re talking to them. They’re helping them put the words together. They don’t want to offend the person. They don’t want to challenge the person.”


Megyn Kelly suspects that if Savannah Guthrie drops any major detail in her plea for Nancy Guthrie

“There’s less hope in the family…” @willgeddes, @eoneill, and James Hamilton on new Savannah Guthrie video revealing Nancy was ‘taken from her bed’ and upping reward to $1 million.

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In her latest video message, Savannah Guthrie said that 24 days had passed since Nancy Guthrie was “taken in the dark of night from her bed.” Megyn Kelly discussed the plea video in her Tuesday podcast and stressed the NBC host’s words. Kelly remarked that whether Savannah Guthrie intended to or not, she had made a “little news.”

Pointing to the “taken…from her bed” remark, Megyn Kelly suspected:

“No one has ever said that before. In fact, the sheriff said it early on and then took it back and said… But there it is, straight from Savannah Guthrie herself. That’s news.”

Many on the internet raised suspicions about Nancy Guthrie’s other daughter, Annie, and her husband, Tommaso, since they were the last people with whom she spent time before she went missing.

In her recent plea, Savannah Guthrie mentioned Annie when she said, “Hope against hope. As my sister says, ‘we are blowing on the embers of hope.’” Megyn Kelly frowned upon the mention of Annie in the message.

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“Given all the focus on the sister and, more accurately, the sister’s husband. To me, that’s a way of endorsing the sister and reminding us they still believe in her and probably in Tommaso too. I don’t think you mentioned the sister unless you’re looking to rehabilitate them both,” Kelly said.


Meanwhile, Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos has cleared Nancy Guthrie’s family members as suspects in the case.