In the hour before Alysa Liu would become the first American woman in nearly a quarter of a century to win an individual Olympic figure skating gold medal, she skipped around the warmup area deep below the Milano Ice Skating Arena taking selfies.

Four years after she stepped away from her sport saying she had lost her love for it, American Alysa Liu skated on Thursday night as though she had flicked the light back on in a long-darkened disco, ...

Her performance left her teammate Ilia Malinin punching the air in delight as he cheered on from the stands and earned Liu a season's best score of 150.20 for her free skate and a total of 226.79.

Malinin fell twice and did not fully complete other elements of his typically unbeatable routine, finishing the men's singles event at the 2026 Winter Olympics with a total score of 264.49 for eighth ...