{"id":37312,"date":"2025-03-29T06:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/what-the-hell-alysa-liu-wins-usas-first-womens-figure-skating-world-title-in-19-years\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T06:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:36:06","slug":"what-the-hell-alysa-liu-wins-usas-first-womens-figure-skating-world-title-in-19-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/what-the-hell-alysa-liu-wins-usas-first-womens-figure-skating-world-title-in-19-years\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What the hell?\u2019 Alysa Liu wins USA\u2019s first women\u2019s figure skating world title in 19 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Liu completes stunning comeback with world title<\/li>\n<li>Japan\u2019s Sakamoto finishes second and Chiba third<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alysa Liu completed her stunning comeback to competitive figure skating with a world championship title on Friday night in Boston, becoming the first American woman to win the sport\u2019s biggest competition outside the Olympics in nearly two decades.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old from Clovis, California, who vanished from the sport <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/apr\/10\/us-olympic-figure-skating-star-alysa-liu-retires-at-age-of-16\">nearly three years ago<\/a> uncertain if she\u2019d ever return, delivered a spellbinding free skate inside a sold-out TD Garden to dethrone three-time defending champion Kaori Sakamoto of Japan. Skating in a shimmering gold dress to the pulsing sounds of Boston-born Donna Summer, Liu <a href=\"https:\/\/skatingscores.com\/2425\/wc\/sr\/women\/i\/long\/usa\/alysa_liu\/\">landed all of her jumps cleanly<\/a> and drew a standing ovation before finishing with 222.97 points overall \u2013 enough to secure gold in front of a rollicking home crowd.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/28\/alysa-liu-figure-skating-world-championships\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liu completes stunning comeback with world title Japan\u2019s Sakamoto finishes second and Chiba third Alysa Liu completed her stunning comeback to competitive figure skating with a world championship title on Friday night in Boston, becoming the first American woman to win the sport\u2019s biggest competition outside the Olympics in nearly two decades. The 19-year-old from &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018What the hell?\u2019 Alysa Liu wins USA\u2019s first women\u2019s figure skating world title in 19 years\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/what-the-hell-alysa-liu-wins-usas-first-womens-figure-skating-world-title-in-19-years\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018What the hell?\u2019 Alysa Liu wins USA\u2019s first women\u2019s figure skating world title in 19 years\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}