{"id":139437,"date":"2026-02-20T00:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139437\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T00:09:09","slug":"watch-alysa-lius-gold-medal-skate-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139437\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Alysa Liu\u2019s gold medal skate \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alysa Liu delivered the U.S. its first women\u2019s figure skating Olympic gold medal in 24 years, performing a near-flawless free skate on Thursday night in a glittering golden dress to upstage Japanese rivals Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai at the\u00a0Milan Cortina Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old from the San Francisco Bay Area, who had\u00a0walked away from the sport<\/a>\u00a0after the Beijing Games four years ago only to launch a remarkable comeback, finished with a career-best 226.79 points. Nakai and Sakamoto, skating right behind her, each made a mistake on a combination sequence, and that made the difference in the medals.<\/p>\n

It was the first individual gold medal for an American woman since 2002, when Sarah Hughes stood atop the podium in Salt Lake City, and it was the second gold for Liu at the Milan Cortina Games. She helped the Americans win team gold.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Glenn finished in fifth place behind Mone Chiba of Japan, a\u00a0stunning rebound from her disastrous short program<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday night. Glenn’s season-best free skate gave a score of 214.91 points, and it just about landed her on the podium as well.<\/p>\n

Glenn pumped her first and fought back tears when her score was read, then she took a seat in the new \u201cleader\u2019s chair.\u201d<\/p>\n

She wound up sitting there for quite a while.<\/p>\n

It was Chiba \u2014 the ninth skater to follow the three-time U.S. champ \u2014 who finally took over first place.<\/p>\n

That didn\u2019t last long with Liu next on the ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alysa Liu delivered the U.S. its first women\u2019s figure skating Olympic gold medal in 24 years, performing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29209,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-139437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}