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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, Liu won the 2025 World Championship and is noted as the first female to land a quadruple jump internationally.
- Last year, Alysa Liu won the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships and will perform her Olympic women's singles short program on Tuesday.
- Liu said she hated skating and planned her exit for a year before quitting, leaving while still in puberty, putting her skates in the closet, and saying she didn't miss the ice.
- After skating again for fun, Liu floated the comeback to longtime coach Phillip DiGuglielmo, who said, `We had a Zoom call for two hours` before resuming seven months of formal training.
- DiGuglielmo said no one has taken a two-year break from skating and pulled off such a feat, and Liu now shapes her choreography and training with increased physical and mental strength.
- During her two-year break, Liu enrolled at UCLA and took up skiing while spending time with siblings in Oakland, hiking in the Himalayas, and reconnecting with high-school friends.
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