Alysa Liu shared the first thing she wants to do after returning home from the Winter Olympics.
Liu opened her 2026 Olympics campaign by competing in the figure skating team event, where she played an important role in helping Team USA win the gold medal. She earned 74.90 points, securing a second-place finish.
Following this, she appeared in the free skate finals, where she delivered a nearly flawless performance and stunned the audience and her fans with her performance on Donna Summer’s “MacArthur Park Suite.”
She registered an overall score of 226.79 points and clinched the gold medal, becoming the first American in 24 years to nab a gold medal in women’s figure skating.
Shortly after her commanding appearance at the Olympics, she sat for a conversation with Self magazine, where she was asked several questions, including the first thing she wishes to do after returning home after the event.
“My No. 1 thing on the to do list is to sleep,” Alysa Liu said.
In addition to this, she answered multiple other questions, including thanking her fans for their support and more:
“I want to thank everybody for the support and for watching and for understanding it, appreciating my art and me as a person and what I do.”
Alysa Liu’s Best Friend Ppened up About Story Behind the American’s Return to Ice After Early Retirement
Alysa Liu made her Olympic debut in 2022, where she didn’t earn any podium finishes. Following this run, she announced her retirement at the early age of 16, and after a hiatus of almost three years, she made her comeback in October 2024 to prepare for the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games.
She did justice to her comeback with two gold medals in Milan, and shortly after this, her best friend, Tseh Newton, revealed what inspired her to return to the ice in an interview with CBS Mornings. Revealing how a skiing trip helped Liu realize her love for skating again, Newton said:
“I remember it was like our first time skiing, and we were driving, and she was like, ‘I’m gonna do Black Diamond today.’ And like some people said that as a joke, she was dead serious. I was like, we need to take it slow. We’re not going on a black diamond, we’re double black diamond.
“Anywhere in this morning, but at the same time, it’s like I knew that she would pick it up, and she did. By the end of the day, she probably could have done that diamonds. I mean, she’s just so athletically gifted in a lot of ways, doing a sport like that again, that’s so fun.”
She added:
“I wasn’t surprised that it reminded her of what she found in skating that she liked. On the ride home from that trip, she just kind of talked it through with us. And she still wasn’t sure at the start, and then she was like, I’ll just try.
“Going to the rink with you in the morning, and if I can land all my jobs, I’ll come back, and I was like, OK, let’s do it. Yeah, she kind of unsurprisingly was able to pick them all up within the morning,” her friend added.
After a successful run at the 2026 Winter Olympics, Alysa Liu is expected to compete next at the World Figure Skating Championships.
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