"So I land at the airport & there's a crowd waiting with cameras and things for me to sign. All up in my space. Someone chased me to my car bruh. Don't do that to me. She punctuated her posting with a crying emoji before publishing a selfie she said was taken from inside a storage closet."
"Liu told Sports Illustrated before the 2026 Olympics began that she was enjoying her brief retirement until a rush of adrenaline she experienced while skiing with friends in early 2024 compelled her to lace-up her skates and head to a rink. There was just one problem. Liu said she had no idea what she'd done with her old blades."
"Her return to the ice and undeniable success made Liu one of the bigger stories of the Olympic games, which concluded on Feb 22. But her return to the U.S. and the hoopla surrounding her success appears to have become overwhelming for the University of California, Los Angeles student."
Alysa Liu, a 20-year-old figure skater from California, won gold medals in both singles and team events at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina, Italy. She had retired from competitive skating four years earlier after the Beijing Olympics, believing she had achieved her goals. In early 2024, while skiing with friends, she felt a rush of adrenaline that inspired her to return to skating. After locating her old skates and successfully landing a double Axel, she committed to her comeback. Her Olympic success made her a major story of the games, but upon returning to the United States, the intense fan attention became overwhelming, with crowds at the airport and fans pursuing her to her vehicle.
Read at The Mercury News
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