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Alysa Liu is a Chinese-American figure skater. She is a two-time U.S. national champion (2019, 2020). On the junior level, she is the 2020 World Junior bronze medalist, the 2019-20 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a two-time Junior Grand Prix champion, and the 2018 U.S. junior national champion. Liu is the youngest-ever U.S. ladies' national champion, having won her first title at age 13. She is the first to win two constructive titles since Ashley Wagner did so in 2012 and 2013. She is also the first lady to win the junior and senior titles back-to-back since Mirai Nagasu accomplished the feat in 2008. Alysa Liu is the first junior American ladies' singles skater to successfully complete a triple Axel in international competition, and only the third American lady overall to do so after Tonya Harding and Nagasu. She is also the first and only American female skater to successfully complete a quad jump (quadruple Lutz) in a competition. Liu is the first ladies skater to ever land both a quadruple jump and a triple Axel in the same program. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/biography/message
Unless someone has a wardrobe malfunction on the ice, it's rare to hear an announcer talk about a figure skating costume. Yet they're a vital part of a skater's competition. We wanted to know more about the clothes, so Alison spoke with figure skating dress designer Pat Pearsall, who gives us the scoop on the dresses she designed for two-time Olympian and PyeongChang 2018 bronze medalist Mirai Nagasu, what she thinks of mesh matching, and how to avoid wardrobe malfunctions. Plus, Jill reports about her amazing time at U.S. Speedskating's Tour of Olympians! Check out Pat's designs at her website, and follow her on Insta and Twitter. If you're in the Eastern or Midwestern part of the U.S., look here to see if U.S. Speedskating's tour is coming to your neck of the woods! DISCLAIMER: OLYMPIC® is a trademark of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (“USOPC”). Any use of OLYMPIC® in the Olympic Fever podcast is strictly for informational and commentary purposes. The Olympic Fever podcast is not an official podcast of the USOPC. The Olympic Fever podcast is not a sponsor of the USOPC, nor is Olympic Fever associated with or endorsed by USOPC in any way. The content of Olympic Fever podcast does not reflect the opinions, standards, views, or policies of the USOPC, and the USOPC in no way warrants that content featured in Olympic Fever is accurate.
U.S. senior competitor Angela Wang tells host Jackie Wong how she came to favor the flip over the lutz and what it was like getting a program choreographed by ice dancers Tanith Belbin White and Charlie White. Then, two-time Olympian Mirai Nagasu joins the podcast to talk about how much it would mean to her to get to compete in the team event in PyeongChang, the feeling she had at the end of her free skate at the 2018 U.S. Championships and how going to her second Olympic Games feels different than her first.
Iced Coffee is a podcast within a podcast. It’s a brand new figure skating podcast, brought to you by the hosts of Coffee and Bars, that brings fresh analysis of the sport of figure skating through the lens of two long-distance besties and pop-culture devotees who met on a figure skating fan discussion board. In episode 2 we review the summer and fall competitions, discuss our favorite programs and the skater's we're rooting for at the Grand Prix series (which starts this week)!