Figure skating: Kaori Sakamoto misses 4th straight worlds title as Liu wins
Japan's Kaori Sakamoto fell short of her fourth straight women's figure skating world championship title on Friday when she ...
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Kaori Sakamoto breathes sigh of relief after world championships
Following last year’s ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Montreal, Kaori Sakamoto seemed invincible. This season, ...
The American Skater Who Burned Out and Retired at 16—and Came Back to Win a World Title
Alysa Liu took two years off before returning as her sport’s most laid back competitor—and the first U.S. woman to hold the ...
Richmond’s Alysa Liu delivers the US its first women’s figure skating world championship in nearly 2 decades
Richmond’s Liu, 19, dethroned three-time defending champion Kaori Sakamoto after coming out of a two year hiatus.
Figure skating: 3-time champ Kaori Sakamoto 5th in short program at worlds
Japanese figure skater Kaori Sakamoto placed fifth in the short program Wednesday at the world championships in Boston but ...
Alysa Liu Soars to 1st Place in Short Program at World Figure Skating Championships After Unretiring from the Sport Last Year
Favorites Kaori Sakamoto of Japan and Amber Glenn of the U.S. both faltered in Boston American Alysa Liu is the surprise ...
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Liu, 19, wins world title - three years after retiring
American figure skater Alysa Liu returns three years after quitting the sport, aged 16, to win the women's world title in ...
Alysa Liu, in her return, becomes first US world champion since 2006
The 19-year-old returned to competing at the beginning of the 2024-25 season, and she capped it off a world champion.
Alysa Liu delivers the U.S. a women’s figure skating world championship; Isabeau Levito finishes fourth
Liu became the first American world champion since Kimmie Meissner stood atop the podium in 2006. Levito and Amber Glenn ...