In a stunning return to the sport, American figure skater Alysa Liu dethroned three-time defending champion Kaori Sakamoto of Japan at the World Figure Skating Championships Friday night at Boston ...

Alysa Liu became the first American since Kimmie Meissner in 2006 to claim the women's world figure skating title [Getty Images] Teenage American figure skater Alysa Liu claimed the women's world ...

Liu announced she was returning to the sport in March 2024 after retiring in 2022 Lawrence Yee joined PEOPLE in December 2023 as the Senior News Editor, Nights. His work has previously appeared on ...

Alysa Liu never expected to win the world championships. After all, the 19-year-old figure skater retired from the sport three years ago, only returning to training again a year ago and ...

BOSTON — On April 9, 2022, Alysa Liu announced her retirement from figure skating. She was only 16, but it strangely made sense. All the early mornings, the rigorous training, the unrelenting ...

BOSTON – In her first figure skating career, the one she ended with a retirement three years ago at age 16, Alysa Liu won national titles, made history as the youngest this and the youngest that, did ...

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS - MARCH 26: Alysa Liu of the United States competes in the Women's Short ... More Program during the ISU World Figure Skating Championships at the TD Garden on March 26 ...

BOSTON — Alysa Liu became the first American women’s figure skating world champion in nearly two decades Friday night, dethroning three-time defending champion Kaori Sakamoto with a brilliant ...

BOSTON — Alysa Liu is the first U.S. women’s singles figure skater to win a world title in 19 years, capping a comeback season after a two-year retirement. Liu, 19, had the top short program and free ...

BOSTON — It was once prophesied how Alysa Liu would return glory to U.S. women’s figure skating. At 13 years old, she became the youngest woman to win the U.S. championships, back in 2019.

Alysa Liu became the first American woman to win the World Figure Skating Championships in 19 years on Friday night in Boston with a free skate in which she landed seven clean triple jumps.

After a week of speculation that often overshadowed his team's run to the Sweet 16, Maryland men's basketball coach Kevin Willard is leaving College Park to become the head coach at Villanova.