Alysa Liu, two-time U.S. National champion, recently returned to competitive figure skating after a two-year break. We chat with Alysa about her life since the Beijing Olympics, her interests and passions, and how her skating is going this season.
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Oona & Gage Brown: “We try to find joy in whatever we’re doing”
Oona & Gage Brown open up about how they're staying motivated to compete at the 2025 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships, despite ongoing financial challenges.
Bratti/Somerville Talk About Their Rollercoaster Year
U.S. ice dancers Emily Bratti & Ian Somerville talk about their career highlights and challenging moments in 2024.
Zingas and Kolesnik: “We’re here for the long run”
U.S. ice dancers Emilea Zingas and Vadym Kolesnik talk about his move from Ukraine, how the war affects him, and their partnership and programs.
Fabbri/Ayer: “We plan to turn everyone’s heads”
Competitive ice dance is all about female and male partners creating beautiful shapes and stories together on the ice. Behind the scenes, however, the sport has struggled with issues of gendered power imbalances, and Olympic champion Gabriella Papadakis recently wrote about how female partners are often undervalued. Fortunately, this is not the case for rising …
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Golubeva/Giotopoulos Moore: “We’re trying to mature our skating”
This week in Halifax, a new season starts for Anastasia “Nastia” Golubeva, 18, and Hektor Giotopoulos Moore, 22, who represent Australia. It’s the couple’s fourth season competing together, and their results have been good: They placed 8th at Worlds in 2023 and 10th at last spring’s Worlds. This season, they hope for continued growth. Golubeva …
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Vaananen/Clerici: “We know we can win and compete at higher levels”
In recent decades, Finland has taken an ever-greater role in ice skating, hosting major events and fielding successful skaters. Kiira Korpi and Laura Lepisto won medals in women’s singles, Juulia Turkkila/Matthias Versluis are top ice dancers, and of course, Finnish synchronized skating teams have won nine World championships. But pairs skating has not been part …
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Summer Sizzler: Season Preview for U.S. Skaters
All photos courtesy of Janet Liu For top U.S. skaters, this season started and will hopefully end in Boston, MA. The past few weeks saw several skating events in the Boston area: Cranberry Cup, the season’s first ISU Challenger Series competition; Champs Camp, the U.S. federation’s high-performance training camp; and Summer Sizzler, a show held …
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Adam Siao Him Fa: “I want to skate in a way that no one did before”
In figure skating, there are great performances that win medals. And then there are performances that transcend medals to enter the lore and iconic history of the sport. Adam Siao Him Fa had both last month at the 2024 ISU World Championships in Montreal: He won his first career World medal--but it’s how he did …
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“We’re Back”: The Surprising Return of Chelsea Liu & Balazs Nagy
Chelsea Liu and Balazs Nagy will make their Grand Prix debut as a team this weekend at Skate America in Texas. Earlier this fall, they finished just off the podium at Autumn Classic International in Montreal, Quebec. Without question, it’s been a good start for their new partnership. Yet, arguably, Liu and Nagy shouldn’t be …
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