Arthur Liu bet everything on his daughter’s Olympic dream—emotionally, financially and personally. For Arthur, who fled China in the 1990s and later fell in love with figure skating after settling in ...

Very few people retire at the age of 16. Then again, few people have careers with as many twists as American figure skater Alysa Liu. After becoming the youngest U.S. women's champion in history at ...

Alysa Liu has had one of the most unconventional but inspiring journeys to the top of the figure skating world. Liu made a splash on the scene when she won the U.S. national championship at the tender ...

Editor's note: Alysa Liu won Olympic gold in women's figure skating. MILAN — Millions of people will watch Alysa Liu when the 20-year-old U.S. figure skater competes for a medal at the 2026 Winter ...

The aerial acrobat who once was Alysa Liu is gone. Long gone. Eight years have passed since Liu, of Richmond, burst into the figure skating universe with a show-stopping performance as a 12-year-old ...

As Alysa Liu recently recounted how she spent her two years of self-imposed exile from figure skating the joy she found in a sense of normalcy and the nonchalance with which she has a tendency to ...