
Alysa Liu Is Do-It-Your-Way Goals After Gliding Her Way To Gold
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Fans raved about the star's Olympics return, calling her an example of what can go right when you chart your own course.
Olympian Alysa Liu wasn’t the only one glowing after her gold medal win in women’s figure skating in Milan on Thursday.
The 20-year-old Bay Area native knew she had nailed it as she wrapped a near-flawless free skate set to Donna Summer and was heard saying, “That’s what I’m fucking talking about!” as she left the ice.
Her feisty exit embodied much of Liu’s return to ice skating after hanging up her skates at 16 years old back in 2022.
At the time, Liu, who started skating at age 5 and became the youngest person to win the U.S. national championship when she was 13, said she had achieved her figure skating goals and was ready to be “moving on with [her] life.”
When Liu announced she was coming back to the ice in March 2024, the athlete said she would be doing things on her own terms, telling US Figure Skating it was “liberating” to be the one finally calling the shots.













