Alysa Liu had an epic (and NSFW) reaction after gold-medal performance at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

There was a lot of pressure on U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu heading into the free skate on Thursday night. The 20-year-old was Team USA’s last hope of an individual gold medal in figure skating after disappointing results from both the women and the men.

Alysa Liu became the first American woman to win an individual figure skating medal at the Olympics in 20 years.

All five figure skating champions at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games have been crowned. Olympic figure skating took its final curtain call until 2030 on Thursday as Alysa Liu won gold and snapped the individual Olympic medal drought that plagued American women for 20 years.

MILAN (AP) — Ami Nakai and Japanese teammate Kaori Sakamoto upstaged Alysa Liu and the rest of the “Blade Angels” on Tuesday night. Nakai rode her opening triple axel to a career-best 78.71 points in her short program at the Milan Cortina Olympics,

Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara have delivered Japan’s first Olympic gold medal in pairs skating MILAN — Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara thought their chances of Olympic gold had gone by the wayside when the Japanese skaters made an uncharacteristic slip-up during their short program at the Milan Cortina Games .

Team USA's Alysa Liu brought her best in Thursday's free skate at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and earned America's first gold medal in women's figure skating in 24 years.

Even though she was skating around three hours before the other top contenders, Petrosian was greeted by cheers from devoted fans holding personalized banners in a nearly full arena. Today I wasn't nervous at all,