Olympic determine skater Alysa Liu has been making historical past. On Thursday (Feb. 19) the 20-year-old received America’s first gold medal within the Winter Olympics’ girls’s free skating occasion since 2002. And he or she’s received a second gold for the workforce occasion. In interviews, she’s been expressing her love for PinkPantheress, and tonight she skated to the Zara Larsson remix of “Stateside” on the Olympic determine skating Exhibition Gala on the Milano Ice Skating Enviornment.
Earlier within the week, reporter Raymond Braun confirmed Liu a video of PinkPantheress giving her a message: “Alysa, plenty of love, thanks a lot for supporting me. I hope that you’ve a very good present. You might be so inspiring and once I was youthful I used to be obsessive about determine skaters so you might be actually dwelling my dream. Thanks a lot for the love.” Liu reacted by saying PinkPantheress is her favourite artist and that if she did the Olympic Gala she would skate to “Stateside.”
Except for her astounding expertise, Liu has been a favourite within the media due to her genuine character and different type, together with halo hair and a smiley piercing. Her story can be endlessly inspiring: She retired from the game on the age of 16 after her 2022 Olympic debut in Beijing resulting from burnout, and resumed two years later to proceed pursuing her ardour. She additionally provides good recommendation: “Do not attempt to be the subsequent me.“
Within the singles competitors she skated to Laufey’s “Promise” within the brief program and Donna Summer season’s 1978 chart-topper “MacArthur Park Suite” for the free skate. (Final yr Laufey awarded her “finest dressed” at a San Francisco live performance.” Watch her “Stateside” (skateside) efficiency from tonight, which Larsson says gave her goosebumps:
She has earned a nap:
