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This Time, Alysa Liu Is Doing It for Herself<\/h4>\n

After a stunning comeback, the figure-skating phenom is Olympics-bound and happier than ever. That matters more to her than any medal.<\/p>\n

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On Feb. 19, 2026, Alysa Liu won gold in the women\u2019s figure skating competition at the 2026 Olympics. The 20-year-old became the first American to top the podium in the event in 24 years. Liu was in third place after the short program, but wowed judges and the crowd with an electrifying performance during the free skate, for which she earned a season-best score of 150.20 for a total of 226.79 points. \u201cI literally can\u2019t process this,\u201d\u00a0she said\u00a0walking down the tunnel of Milano Ice Skating Arena after her win.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alysa Liu had only been back in training for about nine months when she stepped onto the ice at last year\u2019s World Figure Skating Championships in Boston to deliver what might well be the performance of her career. Three years earlier, she had shocked fans when she announced her retirement at age 16. She was content with all she\u2019d accomplished\u2014becoming, at 13, the youngest women\u2019s national champion in history, winning bronze at the 2022 World Championships, placing sixth at the Beijing Olympics. But she was also feeling burnt out, traumatized, and beyond ready to take part in the life she\u2019d missed out on by spending nearly all her days twirling around rinks.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t touch a skate for two years. Instead, Liu enrolled in college, tried mountain climbing, and hung out with her friends, doing normal teen things. She was happy,\u00a0thriving<\/em>, but then one weekend, she went on a ski trip with a friend and found herself yearning to get back on the ice. But this time, she vowed, she would do so firmly on her terms, taking more ownership of her outfits, her music, her routines, her training schedule, her diet\u2014everything.<\/p>\n

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Liu returned to training in earnest in the summer of 2024, and now here she was the following March in Boston, 19 years old, draped in a gold sparkly dress, looking more punk rock than ice princess with her smiley piercing and zebra-striped dyed hair, as she posed silently in the center of the arena, waiting for her music to begin. While \u201cMacArthur Park\u201d by Donna Summer played, Liu nailed the opening triple flip, several complex jump combos, countless dizzying spins, and intricate footwork en route to winning the world championship. The last time an American had won, Liu was less than 1 year old.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe happiest I felt was, after I hit my ending pose, seeing everyone stand up and start roaring. I was like, \u2018Oh hell yeah!\u2019\u201d she tells me of her triumphant return. \u201cBut it wasn\u2019t the winning part that made me feel good, it was actually the skate program I did. It was my favorite run through I\u2019ve ever done. And the energy was insane. Everyone was cheering, clapping, dancing. I would do anything to skate that program and feel the energy of all those people again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watching Liu skate in her 2.0 era, you don\u2019t think about how obvious it is that she was born for this, or how she makes even the most complicated jumps look easy. Okay, you do think about those things; but what shines through more than anything is how happy Liu looks while she\u2019s doing it.\u00a0She appears serene, even relaxed, while pulling off mind-bogglingly difficult skills on the ice. She skates before packed crowds, but there may as well be no one else in the room\u2014Liu is so clearly doing it for herself this time.<\/p>\n

In late October, about seven months after that gold medal finish, Liu is in New York City making the press rounds before she goes into training lockdown ahead of the U.S. National Championships, which will determine whether she would make the Olympic team for the Milan-Cortina Games. (Liu would go on to secure a spot in January, when she placed second at nationals; she will compete this month alongside fellow Team USA members Amber Glenn and Isabeau Levito; thanks in part to some viral TikToks, the Olympic-bound trio has been dubbed the \u201cBlade Angels.\u201d)<\/p>\n

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When we sit down at our offices following the photoshoot for this story, Liu, now 20, has changed out of the leather and high-heel looks and is dressed as she arrived, in baggy jeans, a graphic tee, and Vans. She tells me with a laugh that her style often gets her mislabeled: \u201cI\u2019ll be at something for athletes, and they\u2019re like, \u2018You\u2019re a snowboarder, aren\u2019t you?\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Actually, I\u2019m a figure skater, but thank you.\u2019\u201d Although her off-rink wardrobe is \u201cmore masculine,\u201d she says she loves that figure skating is \u201csuper feminine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Liu grew up in Oakland, raised by a single father, Arthur. She is the eldest of five children, all born via egg donors, in vitro fertilization, and surrogates. Her sister, Selena, is two years younger than her, while triplets, Josh, Justin, and Julia, are four years her junior. When they were all growing up, Liu was gone a lot, training in Delaware, Colorado, Florida, Italy\u2014who knows where\u2014but when she did get to visit her family, she loved being \u201cthe very fun older sister,\u201d who kept her siblings up too late playing video games.<\/p>\n

She started skating at age 5, \u201cbecause my dad had heard of Michelle Kwan,\u201d she says. By 6, she was competing. She had tons of friends at the gym and, to her, it was all fun and games. \u201cI don\u2019t think I ever realized I stood out,\u201d Liu says. \u201cIt was the people around me who did.\u201d She kept competing; her dad hired professional coaches; before long, she was homeschooled to make time for training. \u201cI graduated high school at 15, because everyone wanted me to graduate a year before the Olympics, so for a year I could just focus on training,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI hate the term, but she was a phenom from the start,\u201d says Phillip DiGuglielmo, who has coached her on and off for more than a decade. \u201cI really think that Alysa is in that little pantheon with Tiger Woods, Serena Williams, and Simone Biles. She is absolutely on par with those phenomenal athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n

I ask Liu how it felt, at age 12, when she landed her first triple axel in competition, a skill nearly unheard of for someone her age (she remains the youngest woman to land the skill in international competition), or how it felt the following year when she made history by winning her first national title. \u201cI definitely felt good in those moments,\u201d she says with a shrug. She\u2019s quiet for a beat and then reconsiders.<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m going to be honest. All my memories from back then are gone. I have no idea how I felt in the moment. I have watched it, and I was crying, and I seemed super happy, so I guess I was very happy.\u201d But she adds, \u201cI didn\u2019t enjoy skating back then because I didn\u2019t make my own programs, I didn\u2019t design my own dresses\u2014I was just following orders.\u201d<\/p>\n

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DiGuglielmo agrees: \u201cBefore her self-imposed retirement, she really just did everything people told her to do,\u201d he says. \u201cShe never questioned it. I don\u2019t know if you can remember yourself when you were 12 or 13, but you didn\u2019t question authority.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seeing footage of herself from those years \u201cfeels like watching a different person,\u201d Liu says. \u201cLike, I don\u2019t have those memories.\u201d She chalks it up to \u201ctrauma, definitely, 100 percent. I just blocked it out,\u201d she says. She\u2019d arrive at the gym by 8 A.M. and be there for the next 11 or 12 hours. \u201cI skated every single day. I didn\u2019t get a day off, so it was pretty intense,\u201d she says. On top of the grueling schedule, she felt traumatized by the obsession others had with everything she ate and drank. \u201cEver since I was a kid, I was told stuff like, \u2018Don\u2019t eat that,\u2019\u201d she says. \u201cYou can\u2019t drink water even, because of water weight. Imagine telling a 13-year-old that they can\u2019t drink water because of water weight!\u201d It all compounded until she reached a breaking point, feeling like \u201cthis sport is disgusting and I want nothing to do with it,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

During COVID, when she lived alone and trained in isolation, it got even worse. \u201cI lived everywhere but at home for a bit, and I grew to hate figure skating,\u201d she says. She would Uber alone to and from the rink every day, when \u201call I wanted was to be with my family and friends at home, and live like a normal teenage girl.\u201d She was tired of never being there for friends\u2019 and siblings\u2019 birthdays. \u201cI felt like I was missing life all for this skating career that I didn\u2019t even care about,\u201d she says. \u201cI didn\u2019t really have a dream of my own, except to be at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was almost like she was holding her breath,\u201d DiGuglielmo says of that time. \u201cShe was still giving 100 percent, but there wasn\u2019t any purpose behind it.\u201d After Liu competed at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and won a bronze medal at the world championships that same year, she hung up her skates. \u201cI knew that little me, at one point, wanted to go to the Olympics,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd so I was like, \u2018Well, I did it. There\u2019s nothing else holding me to this sport. Now, I\u2019m free.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIlived a lot,\u201d Liu says of the gap year that followed her retirement, which she spent doing \u201ceverything I possibly could.\u201d She got her drivers\u2019 license; went on her first vacation; danced at concerts with her friends; picked her siblings up at school; went shopping and \u201cfinally bought normal clothes\u201d; and climbed 40 miles to the Mount Everest Base Camp. The following year, she enrolled at UCLA to study psychology and moved into a dorm. Through it all, most importantly, she healed. \u201cWhen I quit, a lot of the toxicity I had attached to skating just,\u00a0boom<\/em>, disappeared,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

In January 2024, she went skiing for the first time\u2014something she\u2019d never been allowed to do before, because of the risk of injury. She felt the familiar wind in her hair, the coldness in her cheeks, and soreness in her leg muscles, and realized how much she missed it all. \u201cI think maybe, after she had some life experiences, she looked around and saw that other people didn\u2019t have anything like she had with skating,\u201d DiGuglielmo says. \u201cIt\u2019s such an important part of who she is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her first time back on the ice that spring, she landed a double axel. Then, she did a triple Salchow-triple toe loop, and landed that too. \u201cJumps are so satisfying,\u201d she says, \u201cand that day was the best.\u201d After classes at UCLA ended that June, she was back training full-force. \u201cI knew who I was, I knew what my interests were, what I liked and disliked, and it was really fun,\u201d Liu says of her return to the rink. \u201cWhen I was a kid, so many people told me who I was and who I wanted to be\u2014there was so much projection. I didn\u2019t have a chance to explore myself, my brain, or my hobbies, but now I have, so I\u2019m feeling really grounded in who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everything is different this time around. \u201cShe\u2019s not doing it because she is trying to build a legacy or anything like that,\u201d DiGuglielmo says. \u201cShe\u2019s just doing it because it makes her so thrilled.\u201d And that comes through when she\u2019s on the ice: \u201cWhen Alysa came back and she was skating for herself, the performances were magical,\u201d he adds. She hired her own coaches. She drives herself to practice. She chooses her sessions at the rink and decides how much she needs to skate.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNobody understands what they\u2019re doing better than Alysa understands what she\u2019s doing,\u201d DiGuglielmo says. \u201cIf we\u2019re working on the technique of a jump, it\u2019s, \u2018What are you feeling? What am I seeing? Where can we make this look better?\u2019 It\u2019s a collaboration; it would never be me telling her, \u2018Do this!\u2019 That would not fly.\u201d And when she wants to, she leaves the rink and goes to hang out with friends. \u201cWhen you get older, you can control so much of your life,\u201d Liu says. \u201cIt\u2019s so much better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Skating is a creative outlet for her now. She designs her own dresses: \u201cI\u2019m so into fashion, and I love being able to control little things. Even my training outfits, I get to choose now. Before, I didn\u2019t. Isn\u2019t that crazy? But now I do.\u201d She works closely with her other coach, choreographer Massimo Scali, to select the music she skates to; at the national championships in January, she debuted a new free skate routine set to Lady Gaga\u2019s \u201cPaparazzi\u201d and \u201cBad Romance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking ahead to the Olympics in Milan-Cortina, Liu insists she \u201cdoesn\u2019t really care about competition results. I skate now to show what I can make, and what I can do,\u201d she says. \u201cI really just want to show my art.\u201d She pauses, then adds: \u201cI refuse to not choose my own destiny.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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