Figure skater Isabeau Levito is making her Olympic debut at the 2026 Winter Games in Milan and Cortina, Italy. The 18-year-old former U.S. National Champion is one-third of Team USA's "Blade Angels" and is aiming to bring home gold after the U.S. was shut out of the women's singles competition in Beijing in 2022. (Russia's Anna Shcherbakova and Alexandra Trusova won the gold and silver medals, respectively, in 2022, while Japan's Kaori Sakamoto took home the bronze.) "I essentially have been skating my whole life," she told Bustle in February 2026. "It's just always been a part of me." She added, "When I was 10, I landed a double axel. A lot of people get stuck at that trick and quit and move on with their life. When I finally landed it, which took me longer than my other jumps, that's when I began to gain faith in myself. I finally thought, 'Oh, wow, I might actually go somewhere with this.'" Behind-the-Scenes on Team USA's Dramatic Journey to the 2026 Winter Olympics Levito's love of old-school Hollywood glamour has become her signature, as she has styled past routines around iconic movie stars such as Audrey Hepburn and Sophia Loren. Keep scrolling for more on Levito's background and what to expect from her at the 2026 Winter Games. Isabeau Levito Started Skating at Age 3 Isabeau Levito's mother, Chiara Garberi Levito, enrolled her in skating classes when she was only 3 years old to help improve her balance. Isabeau excelled at the junior level by winning the 2022 World Junior Championship in Tallinn, Estonia, before clinching her first U.S. Figure Skating Championship in San Jose, California, in January 2023. Since then, she won the 2024 World silver medal and has become a five-time ISU Challenger Series medalist. "When I was young, I was very much known for not showing my nerves somehow. Not in a way that I was just so relaxed backstage, but in a way that I just got on the ice and did my job and I would just never mess up," Isabeau told Olympics.com in 2025. "And then at some point along the way I kind of lost that." Isabeau Levito in January 2026. Jamie Squire/Getty Images She continued, "It became less of going out and running my program that I do every single day in practice, and more of, 'If I make this mistake, who will I disappoint? How many people are going to be sad? How many people are going to be upset? Am I going to lose my spot in this person's eyes? I'm going to lose my spot in my country and I'm going to lose my chance, my opportunity'. And then all of that just kind of... it kills you." Isabeau credited her "Stars On Ice" touring schedule in 2025 with helping her rediscover her passion for the sport. Isabeau Levito's Idol Is a Russian Figure Skating Icon Isabeau Levito has often mentioned two-time Olympic silver medalist, Evgenia Medvedeva, as "the first figure skater who amazed" her. "I was probably about ten years old at the time, and I recall going to the skating rink and watching her performance on my mother's phone," Isabeau told FS Gossip in 2022. The Mount Holly, New Jersey, native was particularly drawn to Medvedeva because the Russian athlete so clearly "felt what she was skating." "There are people who live in music, and their movements on the ice are connected with this," she noted. "It is impossible to express in words, but I heard Medvedeva in her performance, she seemed to have taken me to her on the ice." Isabeau went on, "I admire the way she pulled herself together then and made all the jumps, not forgetting about the story in the program. It was perfection, though no one ever achieves the ideal.

So she is a real inspiration for me. I realized then that I want to skate the same, and I will try to achieve this." Isabeau Levito Is Inspired By Hollywood Glamour Isabeau Levito has drawn on classic Hollywood glamour for many of her routines. Her most successful program thus far was her tribute to Breakfast at Tiffany's, where she danced to "Moon River" in a costume inspired by Audrey Hepburn's iconic black dress from the 1961 movie. "I love playing characters," Isabeau told Olympics.com in October 2025. "It's one of my favorite things about skating is being able to go on the ice and perform a program and be able to play a character and a part without it being my identity." She continued, "When I do my Sophia Loren short program, I'm portraying Sophia Loren, no one's saying, 'Oh, that's Isabeau's personality'. That's Sophia Loren. When I'm doing Breakfast at Tiffany's, 'That's Audrey Hepburn, that's not Isabeau.' So, I get to try on all these characters and have fun skating as them." How 'The Traitors' Cast Member Tara Lipinski Pioneered Modern Figure Skating Isabeau is changing things up for her Winter Games routines in Milan and Cortina, as she performs a tribute to Italian screen goddess Loren with a short program set to "Zoo Be Zoo Be Zoo." Levito's free skate will feature the music of Academy Award-winning 1988 coming-of-age comedy Cinema Paradiso. "So many people were telli