Three Japanese skaters are in position to earn medals heading into the final

MILAN (AP) — Ami Nakai and Japanese teammate Kaori Sakamoto upstaged Alysa Liu and the rest of the “Blade Angels” on Tuesday night. Nakai rode her opening triple axel to a career-best 78.71 points in her short program at the Milan Cortina Olympics,

Three figure skaters from Team USA competed in the women's individual free skate event at the Milan Cortina Winter Games.

MILAN (AP) — Alysa Liu probably cared the least of all the women in figure skating at the Milan Cortina Olympics about winning the gold medal. Maybe that is why she won it. The 20-year-old with the striped hair,

Alysa Liu had an epic (and NSFW) reaction after gold-medal performance at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

All five figure skating champions at the 2026 Milan Cortina Games have been crowned. Olympic figure skating took its final curtain call until 2030 on Thursday as Alysa Liu won gold and snapped the individual Olympic medal drought that plagued American women for 20 years.

Alysa Liu became the first American woman to win an individual figure skating medal at the Olympics in 20 years.

Only USA's Alysa Liu broke up Japan's trio of Ami Nakai, Kaori Sakamoto and Mone Chiba, who finished first, second and fourth after the short program.

Feb. 20 Milano Cortina 2026 medal count: updated Top 10 table. Norway leads 17 gold (36 total), USA 9 (27), Italy 9 (26).

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