Alysa Liu retired after the 2022 Beijing Games. At the Olympic Closing Ceremony, she announced her figure skating future.
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Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu has earned her stripes.
"I don’t need this," Liu said shortly after her victory, looking down at her gold medal. "What I needed was the stage, and I got that"
There is the august, solemn majesty of the Olympic Games, a dignified tradition of athletic excellence stretching back centuries. And then there was Saturday night at the Assago Ice Skating Arena, where Kung-Fu Panda fought Deadpool and Sub-Zero on ice as Tenacious D played overhead and Jackie Chan looked on from rinkside.
It was United States figure skater Alysa Liu’s star that shone the brightest in the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. This is after the 20-year-old won the gold medal in the free skate, marking the first female American figure skater to win individual gold in the Winter Games since 2002.
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