{"id":66791,"date":"2026-02-19T18:56:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/alysa-liu-wins-winter-olympics-gold-to-end-us-womens-24-year-figure-skating-drought\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:56:52","slug":"alysa-liu-wins-winter-olympics-gold-to-end-us-womens-24-year-figure-skating-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/alysa-liu-wins-winter-olympics-gold-to-end-us-womens-24-year-figure-skating-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Alysa Liu wins Winter Olympics gold to end US women\u2019s 24-year figure skating drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>20-year-old delivers near-flawless free skate<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai win silver and bronze<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alysa Liu completed a stunning comeback to competitive figure skating by winning the first Olympic women\u2019s figure skating gold medal for the United States in 24 years on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-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 four years ago<\/a> uncertain if she\u2019d ever return, delivered a career-best long program to overtake Japanese rivals Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai. Skating in a shimmering gold dress to Donna Summer\u2019s MacArthur Park Suite, Liu cleanly landed all seven of her triple jumps, including three in combination, and drew a standing ovation before finishing with 226.79 points overall.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/19\/alysa-liu-figure-skating-winter-olympics-2026\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20-year-old delivers near-flawless free skate Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai win silver and bronze Alysa Liu completed a stunning comeback to competitive figure skating by winning the first Olympic women\u2019s figure skating gold medal for the United States in 24 years on Thursday night. The 20-year-old from Clovis, California, who vanished from the sport nearly &#8230; <a title=\"Alysa Liu wins Winter Olympics gold to end US women\u2019s 24-year figure skating drought\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/alysa-liu-wins-winter-olympics-gold-to-end-us-womens-24-year-figure-skating-drought\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Alysa Liu wins Winter Olympics gold to end US women\u2019s 24-year figure skating drought\">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-66791","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\/66791","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=66791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}