Figure skating: Kaori Sakamoto misses 4th straight worlds title as Liu wins
Japan's Kaori Sakamoto fell short of her fourth straight women's figure skating world championship title on Friday when she ...
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Kaori Sakamoto breathes sigh of relief after world championships
Following last year’s ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal, Kaori Sakamoto seemed invincible. This season, ...
Richmond’s Alysa Liu delivers the US its first women’s figure skating world championship in nearly 2 decades
Richmond’s Liu, 19, dethroned three-time defending champion Kaori Sakamoto after coming out of a two year hiatus.
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Resurgent Liu wins women's figure skating world title over Sakamoto
Liu, who walked away from the sport in 2022 at the age of 16 and returned just a year ago, defied the pressure Sakamoto piled ...
The American Skater Who Burned Out and Retired at 16—and Came Back to Win a World Title
Alysa Liu took two years off before returning as her sport’s most laid back competitor—and the first U.S. woman to hold the ...
Alysa Liu, in her return, becomes first US world champion since 2006
The 19-year-old returned to competing at the beginning of the 2024-25 season, and she capped it off a world champion.
Liu, 19, wins world title - three years after retiring
American figure skater Alysa Liu returns three years after quitting the sport, aged 16, to win the women's world title in ...
Alysa Liu Soars to 1st Place in Short Program at World Figure Skating Championships After Unretiring from the Sport Last Year
Favorites Kaori Sakamoto of Japan and Amber Glenn of the U.S. both faltered in Boston American Alysa Liu is the surprise ...
World figure skating championships 2025: Alysa Liu makes history
Alysa Liu won a stunning world title in women's singles Friday, the first for the United States in the event since 2006.