Olympic sensation Alysa Liu opens up on withdrawing from world championships

U.S. fig skating prima Alysa Liu revealed extensively wherefore she decided to retreat from the upcoming World Championships pursuing her successes astatine the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics. 

At a property league astatine her Oakland solemnisation rally connected Thursday, Liu said she wanted to spell to worlds, but had excessively galore anterior commitments. 

"There's truthful galore commitments I person and activities that are overlapping with worlds, and besides I don't person overmuch clip training," Liu said. "So I can't beryllium doing worlds. I don't deliberation I'd enactment retired my champion performance." 

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Alysa Liu of Team United States performs successful the Women's Single Skating regular during a Figure Skating Exhibition Gala connected time 15 of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Ice Skating Arena connected February 21, 2026 successful Milan, Italy.  (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

Liu besides cited the caller question of "attention" she's received aft winning golden successful the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, and becoming a societal media sensation.

"It's been brainsick however overmuch visibility I person close now. I would person ne'er expected that, particularly from a fig skater, we don't truly stroke up similar that. So, decidedly an adjustment," Liu said. "But it's truly conscionable astir staying offline."

Liu's lack from the satellite championships roster came conscionable days aft she revealed connected societal media that she was precocious "chased" to her car by a spectator. 

"So I onshore astatine the airport, & there’s a assemblage waiting astatine the exit with cameras & things for maine to sign," she wrote successful an Instagram story. "All up successful my idiosyncratic space. Someone chased maine to my car bruh. Please bash not bash that to me."

Liu entered impermanent status soon aft her archetypal Olympic quality successful 2022. Her father, Arthur Liu, said it was owed to "trauma."

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USA's Alysa Liu reacts aft competing successful the fig skating women's azygous escaped skating last during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Ice Skating Arena successful Milan connected Feb. 19, 2026. (WANG Zhao / AFP)

"She became truly unhappy," Arthur Liu told USA Today astir wherefore she retired. "She avoided the crystal rink astatine each costs. She's traumatized. She was conscionable traumatized. She was suffering from PTSD, and she wouldn't spell adjacent the crystal rink."

Before her quality successful the 2022 Beijing Games, she and her begetter were the alleged targets of a spying cognition by the Chinese government. Liu called the acquisition "a small spot freaky and exciting."

"You cognize what I mean? It's truthful … unbelievable. You cognize what I mean like, that's crazy," she antecedently told Fox News Digital astatine a roundtable interrogation astatine the USOPC Media Summit successful October. "Like, ideate uncovering that retired astatine specified a young age, I mean, like, successful a weird way, I was like, 'Am I similar successful immoderate prank show?' Like, is this satellite real. Like, I indispensable beryllium immoderate movie character. But, I mean, it was similar it made consciousness to me, you know, from, like, everything my dada did backmost successful his activistic days."

Liu made her instrumentality to the athletics conscionable 2 years aboriginal successful 2024. By March 2025, she was already making past for Team USA, becoming the archetypal American to triumph astatine the World Figure Skating Championships successful 19 years.

Then, successful February, she made past arsenic the archetypal American to triumph Olympic golden successful a women's idiosyncratic fig skating contention since 2002 and the archetypal American pistillate to medal astatine each successful the lawsuit since 2006. 

The historical triumph was followed by a monolithic surge successful popularity.

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Alysa Liu of the United States arrives to vie during the women's fig skating escaped programme astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026.  (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Prior to the Olympics, she had little than 300,000 followers connected Instagram. Just a week aft the Olympics ended, she climbed past 5 million. Now, astatine the clip of publication, she has much than 7.7 million. 

But fans volition not beryllium capable to ticker her successful Prague, arsenic they eagerly await her instrumentality to competition. 

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