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Figure Skater Alysa Liu Retired for Two Years: How the Time Away Helped Her Skating
After a two-year break and seven months of training, 20-year-old Alysa Liu won the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships, adding to her Olympic success.
- On Thursday, Alysa Liu, 20-year-old figure skater, returns to the Olympic ice after winning the 2025 World Championships following seven months of resumed training.
- Alysa Liu retired at 16 and then stepped away from the sport for two years because she hated skating and sought a normal teenage life with friends and freedom.
- Coach Phillip DiGuglielmo said `We had a Zoom call for two hours`, after which Liu persuaded him to back her comeback and trained for seven months.
- She sits in third place after the short program and is the top American in the standings, with Liu also an Olympic team gold medalist at the Milan Cortina Games.
- At 20, Liu is physically and mentally stronger and competes on her own terms, challenging the rarity of such a comeback after a two-year break, DiGuglielmo said.
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Alysa Liu Is Skating Again, Her Way This Time
MILAN — It’s easy to spot Alysa Liu. At the Milan Cortina Olympics this week, during her group warmup for the figure skating short program, her competitors wore invisible blinders as they focused on their jumps and spins. Liu, however, looked as if she had arrived at a party. She tried joking with her teammates. Waved to friends in the crowd. Applauded her fellow skaters. At one point, she found her family in the stands — including her father, A…
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