Alysa Liu Adds Her Name to Bay Area’s Olympic Skating Icons

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She’s the fourth Bay Area skater to win individual gold at the Winter Olympics, and the seventh medalist from the region overall​

Alysa Liu adds her name to Bay Area’s Olympic skating icons

She’s the fourth Bay Area skater to win individual gold at the Winter Olympics, and the seventh medalist from the region overall

www.eastbaytimes.com

Alysa Liu joined the realm of Bay Area figure skating legends Thursday when her extraordinary free skate program earned her Olympic gold at the Milan Cortina Games.

The 20-year-old Liu, once the youngest skater to win the U.S. championships, had icons of Northern California skating cheering her on in Italy: Kristi Yamaguchi and Brian Boitano were watching together from inside the arena as Liu ended the American skating gold drought of 24 years.

Vincent Zhou, a South Bay native who won gold in the team event at the 2022 Olympics, called Liu’s return to the ice “the greatest modern comeback story in the sport” in an Instagram Story celebrating her gold.

That story included a retirement at age 16, a journey of self-discovery and an embrace of a carefree outlook that helped her shake off the pressure of the international stage.

 

[buckeye]

Probably the last one as Oakland has become a democrat shithole and way too many of the richest Californians that can afford what it takes to get where Alyssa got are fleeing the crime ridden shitholes and a giant tax on their wealth.

 

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The youngest American Woman to win individual gold was Tara Lipinski at age 15 in 1998. Last American Woman win an individual was Sarah Hughes back in 1998.

 

[buckeye]

The youngest American Woman to win individual gold was Tara Lipinski at age 15 in 1998. Last American Woman win an individual was Sarah Hughes back in 1998.

They can't both have won gold in the same year.

I bet you're both leftists.

 

[Fiero425]

Probably the last one as Oakland has become a democrat shithole and way too many of the richest Californians that can afford what it takes to get where Alyssa got are fleeing the crime ridden shitholes and a giant tax on their wealth.

I lived out there for over a decade! It just never mattered how much I made, California living just sucked it up! I have no regrets; still one of the most picturesque places in the country! And even w/ all their corruption, it's been like the 5th largest economy in the world! Unfortunately I moved from one state of insolvency due to retirement/entitlement commitments to another; Chicago IL! We've won some awards of "Fave Big City" in the country for the last 8 years, but it's gonna collapse one day! Hopefully I'll be long gone!

 

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The City of Richmond is planning some kind of whoop-t-doo. She has earned it. My Dad us moved to San Leandro in 1966, at the time he Deputy Director of Public For Parks Job Corps Center in Pleasanton (an armpit if there ever was one). A minor historical note, it was my Dad that coined the phrase, "George Forman The Fighting Corpsman."

 

[MarathonMike]

I haven't watched much of the Olympics but I watched her final skate. She was stellar, total command and just as relaxed as can be.

 

[buckeye]

I lived out there for over a decade! It just never mattered how much I made, California living just sucked it up! I have no regrets; still one of the most picturesque places in the country! And even w/ all their corruption, it's been like the 5th largest economy in the world! Unfortunately I moved from one state of insolvency due to retirement/entitlement commitments to another; Chicago IL! We've won some awards of "Fave Big City" in the country for the last 8 years, but it's gonna collapse one day! Hopefully I'll be long gone!

CA is the most beautiful state in the US, hands down. But it would likely drive me nuts to live there.

I do wonder when American cities and states will start collapsing. Some are living on the edge of it.

 

[Dragonlady]

The youngest American Woman to win individual gold was Tara Lipinski at age 15 in 1998. Last American Woman win an individual was Sarah Hughes back in 1998.

Sarah Hughes won the OGM in 2002. Tara Lipinski won in 1998.

 

[Fiero425]

Sarah Hughes won the OGM in 2002. Tara Lipinski won in 1998.

Expectations had Michelle Kwan winning the era, but it wasn't t/b as she let 2 kids beat her!

 

[Dragonlady]

Expectations had Michelle Kwan winning the era, but it wasn't t/b as she let 2 kids beat her!

Ice is slippery. The best skater doesn't always win. Kwan at least has Olympic medals, just not gold.

Today, Ilia Malinin is the best male skater who ever lived. Everybody else is skating for silver with Malinin in the field, and yet he didn't win a medal of any colour this year.

Kurt Browning was the best male skater on the planet, in his day, and yet he doesn't have an Olympic medal of any colour either and he went to three Olympics - 1988, 1992, and 1994.