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How Alysa Liu broke the mold with unexpected figure skating
4+ hour, 44+ min ago (960+ words) Maybe that is why she won it. The 20-year-old with the striped hair, prominent frenulum piercing and carefree attitude never showed any worry or strain when she took the ice for her free skate on Thursday night. Instead, Liu waved…...
Olympic figure skating champion Liu withdraws from world championships
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (450+ words) Olympic figure skating champion Alysa Liu has withdrawn from the world championships later this month, an unsurprising move for the defending champ after she won the first Winter Games gold medal by an American woman in more than two decades....
Malinin looks to future after 'Olympic curse' strikes in disastrous free skate
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (878+ words) The overwhelming favorite to win gold, Malinin fell twice amid a calamitous program that he seemingly had perfected over the past year, sending him tumbling from first place all the way off the podium and allowing Mikhail Shaidorov to claim…...
U. S. skater Naumov honors late parents by completing Olympic dream
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (525+ words) Now the American figure skater has done it. The 24-year-old Naumov finished his Winter Games debut with an emotional free skate Friday night, just over a year after Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were among 67 people killed when American Airlines…...
San Siro set to host opening ceremony of Winter Olympics
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (581+ words) One of the world's most famous stadiums is set for a last hurrah on the international stage with the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics at the San Siro on Friday. Long considered one of the temples of football, the…...