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Kaori Sakamoto breathes sigh of relief after world championships
Following last year’s ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal, Kaori Sakamoto seemed invincible. This season, ...
Figure skating: Kaori Sakamoto misses 4th straight worlds title as Liu wins
Japan's Kaori Sakamoto fell short of her fourth straight women's figure skating world championship title on Friday when she ...
Richmond’s Alysa Liu delivers the US its first women’s figure skating world championship in nearly 2 decades
Richmond’s Liu, 19, dethroned three-time defending champion Kaori Sakamoto after coming out of a two year hiatus.
Figure skating: 3-time champ Kaori Sakamoto 5th in short program at worlds
Japanese figure skater Kaori Sakamoto placed fifth in the short program Wednesday at the world championships in Boston but ...
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Resurgent Liu wins women's figure skating world title over Sakamoto
Liu, who walked away from the sport in 2022 at the age of 16 and returned just a year ago, defied the pressure Sakamoto piled ...
Alysa Liu, in her return, becomes first US world champion since 2006
The 19-year-old returned to competing at the beginning of the 2024-25 season, and she capped it off a world champion.
With a dazzling women’s free skate, American Alysa Liu caps comeback with world championship victory
Liu scored a 222.97 to complete her improbable return from retirement with a world championship Friday at TD Garden.
Liu, 19, wins world title - three years after retiring
American figure skater Alysa Liu returns three years after quitting the sport, aged 16, to win the women's world title in ...
Olympic favorite Ilia Malinin of the US aims to defend his figure skating world title
Ilia Malinin is heavily favored to defend his figure skating world championship this week in what should be a preview of the ...