Alysa Liu explains how skating with joy led to Olympic gold for US: 'There’s no way to lose'

United States fig skater Alysa Liu couldn’t beryllium happier with however her escaped skate regular came out, and judges agreed arsenic she won golden connected Thursday nighttime astatine the 2026 Milan Cortina Games.

Joy is an understatement for the 20-year-old who ended a 24-year drought for golden for the Americans. But that’s precisely what the taxable of her escaped skate was astir — the joyousness of being retired connected the crystal successful beforehand of the assemblage and the millions watching astir the globe.

After her gold-medal winning performance, Liu explained the communicative she wanted to archer with her skate.

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USA's Alysa Liu reacts aft competing successful the fig skating women's azygous escaped skating last during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Ice Skating Arena successful Milan connected Feb. 19, 2026. (WANG Zhao / AFP)

"What I similar to stock astir myself is my story, my creation and my originative process," she told NBC News. "I conjecture messing up doesn’t instrumentality distant from that. It’s inactive something, it’s inactive a story. A atrocious communicative is inactive a story, and I deliberation that’s beautiful.

"There’s nary mode to lose."

With that mindset, Liu tin genuinely skate free, not worrying astir failure.

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Instead, she wanted to enactment the assemblage passim the performance, specifically mentioning those successful the gathering who were up high.

"I was trying to amusement disconnected my formal — this is simply a caller dress. I truly similar it," Liu added, looking down astatine her golden formal that seemed precise fitting considering the results. "I was besides focused connected engaging with the audience. In betwixt my transitions — they’re kinda seated precocious up — I truly took a infinitesimal to grin astatine them, springiness them a small shoulder. Engage with the crowd, and I did conscionable that."

USA's Alysa Liu competes successful the fig skating women's azygous escaped skating last during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Ice Skating Arena successful Milan connected Feb. 19, 2026. (Gabriel BOUYS / AFP)

Liu’s joyousness was beaming aft completing the routine, erupting into a solemnisation wherever she couldn’t assistance but yell, "That’s what I’m f—ing talking about!," portion with her team.

Liu finished with a 226.79 gold-medal-winning people aft notching a 150.20 successful the escaped skate and 76.59 successful the abbreviated program. It was the champion people Liu has enactment unneurotic each season.

While Liu was blessed with what she did connected the ice, she inactive had to ticker Japan’s Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai decorativeness their escaped skate earlier seeing what the last results would be.

In the end, Liu came retired connected top, becoming the archetypal American pistillate since Sasha Cohen astatine the 2006 Turin Games to medal successful singles fig skating. Sarah Hughes was besides the past golden medal victor for the U.S. successful 2002.

Gold medalist Alysa Liu of Team United States poses for a photograph during the medal ceremonial for the Women's Single Skating connected time thirteen of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Ice Skating Arena connected Feb. 19, 2026 successful Milan, Italy.  (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

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Prior to this performance, Liu rapidly won the hearts of Americans aft helping the U.S. triumph golden successful the squad event.

While Liu is looking guardant to performing astatine the Olympic Gala, her contention successful Milan has travel to a joyous end.

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