Alysa Liu announced her return to competitive ice skating one year ago. On Friday night, she was crowned world champion. Liu, 19, became the first American woman to win the World Figure Skating ...

BOSTON — On April 9, 2022, Alysa Liu announced ... with the 2026 Winter Olympic Games little more than 10 months away. “Just what the hell?” Liu said when she was done, laughing as she ...

Bay Area figure skating fans on Monday were still celebrating East Bay native Alysa Liu’s gold medal performance at the World ...

Liu became the first American world champion since Kimmie Meissner stood atop the podium in 2006. Levito and Amber Glenn scored three spots for the Americans at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

BOSTON – In her first figure skating career, the one she ended with a retirement three years ago at age 16, Alysa ... Liu took control of her future after years of simply doing what others expected ...

BOSTON — Alysa Liu let ... the 2022 Olympics than Liu, who finished sixth but seemed most excited about the peach juice and souvenir options available in the Olympic village.

American Alysa Liu is the surprise leader after the women's short program at the 2025 World Figure Skating Champions, just one year after announcing her return to the sport after retiring in 2022 at ...

BOSTON — It was once prophesied how Alysa Liu would ... woman to win Olympic singles gold in 24 years. “What the hell? What the hell? What the hell?” That’s what Liu said was going through ...

BOSTON — Alysa Liu is the first U.S. women's singles ... That was also the last time an American woman won worlds in the pre-Olympic year. Hughes was the last U.S. woman to win Olympic gold in 2002.

Alysa Liu was in the middle ... since 2006 and the first to win in a non-Olympic year since 2003. 7.98, in her victory. “What just happened?” Liu said after her skate.

At this time last year, Alysa Liu was a student at UCLA and a retired ... She made the 2022 Olympic team and finished seventh in Beijing, and a month later, won a World bronze medal.

In a stunning return to the sport, American figure skater Alysa Liu dethroned ... expectations on my part." Liu is now in position to make the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympic team for the U.S. The ...