A year ago, Alysa Liu became the youngest U.S. women’s figure skating champion in history at the age of 13. Friday night, Liu became the youngest two-time U.S. women’s skating champion at the age of 14.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — A year ago, Alysa Liu became the youngest U.S. women’s figure skating champion in history at the age of 13. At 4-7, she was so short she needed a helping hand from the two women she defeated to reach the top spot on the medal podium.
Friday night, Liu became the youngest two-time U.S. women’s skating champion at the age of 14. Now 4-10, she is still so short that she again needed another hand from the same two women she defeated to reach the top spot on the medal podium.Bell is nine years older than Liu. Third-place finisher Bradie Tennell, the 2018 national champion, is seven years older. They have this down by now.
If the United States is to finally win another Olympic medal in women’s figure skating after being shut out in 2010, 2014 and 2018, Liu is by far the nation’s best bet to do it. She became the first woman to attempt a quadruple jump in the history of U.S.
In the days of Peggy Fleming and Dorothy Hamill, beautiful skating won the day. Not anymore. It’s great if a teenage skater can attain an air of maturity on the ice — and Liu is in the process of doing just that with choreographer Lori Nichol, who worked wonders with Michelle Kwan a generation ago — but she must be able to land jumps in competition that were unthinkable for women’s skating even a few years ago.
In the first 65 seconds of her long program, Liu landed two triple axels — the toughest triple jump there is, the one done almost exclusively by men for several generations — and made that game attempt at the quad. Then she reeled off six more triple jumps. That is how to compete with your fellow tiny teenagers in the increasingly high-stakes world of international jumping contests we call figure skating.
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