{"id":686089,"date":"2026-01-10T05:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686089\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T05:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T05:40:23","slug":"figure-skater-torgashev-hopes-to-join-team-usa-in-milano-cortina-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686089\/","title":{"rendered":"Figure skater Torgashev hopes to join Team USA in Milano Cortina \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic hopeful and Irvine-based figure skater Andrew Torgashev hopes to qualify for one of three spots on Team USA for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/2026-milan-cortina-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2026 Winter Olympic Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a month before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Milano Cortina Games<\/a>, the final qualifying event for figure skaters will be held this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea of representing the United States at the Olympics is crazy,\u201d Torgashev said. \u201cIf I can achieve that, and I&#8217;m doing everything in my power to achieve that, that would be goal complete for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Torgashev, 24, first started figure skating 20 years ago. His parents are former Soviet skating stars and his first coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Florida, Torgashev moved to Colorado Springs and then to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/orange-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orange County<\/a>, where he started training at Great Park Ice. The facility is also where he began learning from famed Olympic coach Rafael Arutyunyan, who helped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/olympic-champion-nathan-chen-coaches-next-generation-of-figure-skaters-in-irvine\/3802974\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 Olympic Champion Nathan Chen<\/a> earn a gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOut of the whole world, Raf was the only person that I could go to to develop my skating even further,\u201d Torgashev said.<\/p>\n<p>As Torgashev looks to qualify for his first Olympics, his skating style is what he wants to show the world the most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI put my emotions into my skating,\u201d Torgashev said. \u201cEvery program, I try to perform to the best of my ability. It takes a lot of vulnerability (and) a lot of emotion to get to that point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Torgashev, who is currently in fifth place after his short program on Wednesday, will perform his free skate program Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The figure skaters who will represent Team USA will be announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic hopeful and Irvine-based figure skater Andrew Torgashev hopes to qualify for one of three spots on Team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[203882,52856,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-686089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympics","9":"tag-irvine","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115869202685747883","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}