{"id":139963,"date":"2026-02-20T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139963\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:57:07","slug":"alysa-lius-gold-winning-performance-from-every-angle-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139963\/","title":{"rendered":"Alysa Liu\u2019s gold-winning performance from every angle \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milan Cortina Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old from the San Francisco Bay Area, who had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/milan-cortina-olympics-figure-skating-usa-328f4469f6ea79776df47c27afac710a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">walked 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.<\/p>\n<p>Get a different perspective on Liu&#8217;s joyful free skate performance that earned her the first U.S. gold medal in the event since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter Alysa Liu\u2019s unfiltered moment in the kiss and cry, Olympic figure skater Mariah Bell shares why she finds Liu\u2019s authenticity so inspiring.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29209,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-139963","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\/139963","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=139963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}