"The moment Nakai's score was read after the final program of the night, teammate Amber Glenn jumped onto the kiss-and-cry stand and raised Liu's hand in triumph. Liu sheepishly turned and applauded the 17-year-old Nakai, who raced over and hugged her. It's the first gold medal for an American woman since 2002, when Sarah Hughes stood atop the podium in Salt Lake City."
"Glenn pumped her first and fought back tears when her score was read, then she took a seat in the new "leader's chair." She wound up sitting there for quite a while. Through an ice resurfacing. And through eight programs by other skaters, including American teammate Isabeau Levito, whose fall on her opening triple flip in an otherwise elegant performance kept her from taking over the top spot herself."
"The 20-year-old from the San Francisco Bay Area, who had walked away from the sport after the Beijing Games four years ago only to launch a remarkable comeback, finished with a career-best 226.79 points. Nakai and Sakamoto, skating right behind her, each made a mistake on a combination sequence, and that made the difference in the medals. Sakamoto had 224.90 points to earn a silver to go with her bronze from Beijing."
Alysa Liu won the Olympic women's figure skating gold at the Milan Cortina Games with a near-flawless free skate, earning a career-best 226.79 points. The 20-year-old had left the sport after the Beijing Games and completed a comeback to claim the title. Kaori Sakamoto scored 224.90 for silver and Ami Nakai scored 219.16 for bronze after mistakes on combination sequences. Amber Glenn rebounded to finish fifth with a season-best 214.91 and briefly occupied the leader's chair. Isabeau Levito fell on a triple flip, and Adeliia Petrosian fell on an attempted quad toe loop. It was the first American women's Olympic gold in figure skating since Sarah Hughes in 2002.
Read at ABC7 San Francisco
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