Posted on 02/19/2026 2:18:43 PM PST by BigEdLB
MILAN (AP) — Alysa Liu wins first women's figure skating gold medal for the US in 24 years at Milan Cortina Games.
Alysa Liu is left to bear the ambitions of the American figure skating team on Thursday night, when the last of the “Blade Angels” with a legitimate shot at the Olympic gold medal tries to catch Japanese teammates Ami Nakai and Kaori Sakamoto during the women's free skate at the Milan Cortina Games.
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GREATEST USA WINTER OLYMPICS DAY SINCE 1980!
The cutest is actually Isabeau Levito, who placed eighth. I would have like to seen her on the podium.
Alyssa and the women’s hockey.
Quote: “ The cutest is actually Isabeau Levito, who placed eighth. I would have like to seen her on the podium.”
Next Olympics she will be.
I know. Isabeau is only 18. Shell be back, and she is genuinely pretty.
Interesting family story and drama from her wiki page:
Alysa Liu was born on August 8, 2005, in Clovis, California, the oldest child of Arthur Liu and Yan Qingxin (Mary). Her father, Arthur Liu, went into exile at age 25 in the 1990s from Guangzhou, China, to the United States due to the persecution of participants in the 1989 Democracy Movement. He later became a lawyer.[1][2][3] Liu is the oldest of five children. Like her siblings, she was conceived through an anonymous egg donor and a gestational surrogate.[4] Later, Liu’s parents divorced, but her mother Yan continued to act as the siblings’ legal guardian; they also frequently spent time at her house.[5]
Liu was considered the frontrunner female recruitment prospect for China as a part of its “naturalization project” to recruit overseas athletes in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Her father, however, would not be persuaded.[6] In March 2022, it was reported that Liu and her father had been targeted in November 2021 by spies allegedly under direction of the Chinese government, in an operation to collect private information on Chinese political dissidents living in the United States. One spy posed as a U.S. Olympic Committee official and requested copies of their passports. Her father stated that the scheme was likely designed to “intimidate” him and to “silence” him from “say[ing] anything political or related to human rights violations in China”; he added that he was concerned for his daughter’s safety while she was in Beijing but he agreed to let her compete after receiving assurances that the U.S. State Department would take additional precautions to protect her.[7][8]
In a world of Eileen Gu’s, be an Alysa Liu.
Tough girl
The seven points Glenn lost by missing the jump in the short program cost her the bronze medal...
The womans long program was exciting- Liu was terrific!!
Too bad she didn’t speak out against amber Glenns or any of her USA teammates speaking out against the USA
I would have watched
This is bad
She is such a cutie. So enthusiastic and lively.
And tough Dad.
Great figure skater but doesn’t jump like the others...i agree- she is adorable, the Dorthy Hamill of 2026 and a lot of teenage boys are going to have a crush on her...
She is young yet.
Japan got screwed
Her parents were spied on by the Chico’s.
Indeed.
Silence is her way. Chinese cultural thing.
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