American figure skating star Alysa Liu wins gold at Grand Prix Final

U.S. fig skating prima Alysa Liu won golden astatine the Grand Prix Final successful Japan connected Saturday, winning her 2nd planetary medal successful 2025 up of her instrumentality to the Olympics successful February. 

Liu bested Japan's teen sensation Nakai Ami by little than 2 points to triumph the apical spot. 

"My show decidedly does springiness maine confidence, successful my stamina and successful my consistency," Liu said, per Olympics.com. "I deliberation a batch of things tin hap betwixt present and the Olympics. I inactive person nationals - they inactive person nationals - and I volition beryllium working.

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Gold medalist Alysa Liu poses for a photograph aft winning the women’s satellite title during the 2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships astatine TD Garden successful Boston, Massachusetts, connected March 28, 2025. (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

Liu lone conscionable returned to the athletics past twelvemonth aft an aboriginal status pursuing her archetypal Olympic show successful 2022. She was erstwhile considered a rising prima arsenic the youngest U.S. champ ever erstwhile she triumphed astatine the property of 13 successful 2019 and past defended her rubric the adjacent year.

When she competed astatine the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, it came nether the shadiness of a national probe into a Chinese spying probe against her and her father. Liu's begetter had go a people of Chinese spies owed to his engagement successful the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.

"Like, ideate uncovering that retired astatine specified a young age, I mean, similar In a weird way, I was like, 'Am I similar successful immoderate prank show?' Like, is this satellite existent similar I indispensable beryllium immoderate movie character. But, I mean, it was similar it made consciousness to me, you know, from similar everything my dada did backmost successful his activistic days," Liu told Fox News Digital astatine the USOPC Media Summit successful October. 

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(left)FBI agent, (middle) Alysa Liu, (right) Chinese military (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images, Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images, PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Liu inactive went connected to vie successful the Beijing Winter Games, but with heightened information assurances from the State Department and USOPC. She had astatine slightest 2 radical escorting her astatine each times.

She went connected to decorativeness sixth successful the women's singles contention and won a bronze squad medal, earlier opening her little retirement. 

Liu decided skating had go little of a joyousness and much of a job, and she wanted to absorption connected being a mean assemblage student. It wasn’t until she went connected a skis travel and felt the unreserved of contention — albeit successful a overmuch antithetic way, and with acold little stakes — that she began to deliberation astir a comeback.

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Early past year, she made it authoritative with a cryptic station connected societal media. And portion the way backmost successful a notoriously fickle athletics was bumpy, Liu took a large measurement guardant with her second-place decorativeness to Glenn astatine the U.S. championships.

Then aft coming retired of status successful aboriginal 2024, Liu dethroned three-time defending champion Kaori Sakamoto of Japan astatine the World Figure Skating Championships this past March. She became the archetypal American pistillate to assertion a rubric since Kimmie Meissner successful 2006. 

Alysa Liu poses aft winning golden successful the women’s programme of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Skate America astatine Herb Brooks Arena successful Lake Placid, New York, connected Nov. 16, 2025. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Now she has her eyes acceptable connected the Milano-Cortina Olympics successful February, arsenic 1 of Team USA's astir melodramatic stories. 

She hasn't ruled retired seeing her life, and acquisition successful an planetary spying incident, adapted into a movie. 

Still, she has immoderate preferences if her communicative makes it onto the metallic screen.

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"They gotta marque maine look similar ace chill leader oregon something. And just, I can't conscionable beryllium the kid that got spied connected and did thing astir it," she said. "But Honestly, I would conscionable person the main absorption beryllium similar my dad's story, due to the fact that similar his communicative is truthful chill and similar besides conscionable similar everything that lone happened due to the fact that of what helium did, so, similar I consciousness similar we got to commencement with the roots."

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