Following last year’s ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal, Kaori Sakamoto seemed invincible. This season, ...

Japan's Kaori Sakamoto fell short of her fourth straight women's figure skating world championship title on Friday when she ...

Richmond’s Liu, 19, dethroned three-time defending champion Kaori Sakamoto after coming out of a two year hiatus.

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 ...

American figure skater Alysa Liu returns three years after quitting the sport, aged 16, to win the women's world title in ...

Liu scored a 222.97 to complete her improbable return from retirement with a world championship Friday at TD Garden.

Alysa Liu becomes the first U.S. woman to win a world title since 2006, after having returned to international competition ...

The 19-year-old returned to competing at the beginning of the 2024-25 season, and she capped it off a world champion.

Alysa Liu, who walked away from figure skating at age 16 and returned last year, won the 2025 world championship on Friday.

BOSTON — Alysa Liu let out a shocked smile Friday night, as the crowd at TD Garden roared and the stuffed animals began to rain down on the ice. Three years after retiring, and one year after ...

Liu, 19, became the first American woman to win the World Figure Skating Championships in 19 years. The previous American ...