Each Olympics season, a new princess is crowned, and the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics was all about U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu. After winning over the world with her alt-girl beauty looks and enlightened approach to training, she won two actual gold medals at the competition (including in women’s skating, the first time a female skater on Team USA had won gold in 24 years). While the Olympics may be over, Liu’s influence still looms large — over the weekend, her name made it into a Saturday Night Live sketch with Connor Storrie.
In the sketch, where Storrie is playing a popular high-school jock befriending the school’s resident nerd, Storrie’s character name-checked Liu during a breakthrough moment: “And as that ice-skating girl with the striped hair taught us,” he said, “you can still be a baddie even if you’re a little quirked up.” Liu reposted the meme on her Instagram Story, captioning it “period.”
USA figure skater Alysa Liu shared the SNL sketch where Connor Storrie mentioned her! She also followed him on instagram! pic.twitter.com/W7eXuK5O1V
— Connor Storrie Updates (@connorstupdates) March 2, 2026
If these two have anything in common, it’s that they’re two of the happiest people to ever become famous overnight. Where Liu celebrated her gold-medal win screaming, “That’s what I’m fucking talking about,” Storrie broke out into tears at the end of his SNL episode. Get them on the same ice rink pronto!
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