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 ...

Japanese figure skater Kaori Sakamoto placed fifth in the short program Wednesday at the world championships in Boston but ...

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 ...

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

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

Defending champion Kaori Sakamoto of Japan placed fifth in the women''s short program at the 2025 World Figure Skating ...

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

Alysa Liu won the women's figure skating world title on Friday, delivering a dazzling free skate to edge three-time defending ...

Liu became the first American women’s figure skating world champion in nearly two decades, dethroning three-time defending champ Kaori Sakamoto with a brilliant free skate Friday night.