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.

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Alysa Liu brought down the house with her free skating, her electric performance rocketing her to winning gold at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Team USA figure skater Alysa Liu delivered a superb routine to win gold in dramatic fashion, highlighting an action-packed Day 13 at the Milan Cortina Games. Liu secured the first gold medal since 2002,

MILAN (AP) — On a night of American comebacks at the Milan Cortina Games, Alysa Liu delivered the U.S. its first women’s figure skating Olympic gold medal in 24 years. The 20-year-old Liu performed a near-flawless free skate Thursday to upstage Japanese rivals Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai.

She’s the fourth Bay Area skater to win individual gold at the Winter Olympics, and the seventh medalist from the region overall

The Women's Figure Skating Free Skate will be the final figure skating event of the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics and it takes place on Thursday, Feb. 19.

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

Day 14 from Milan Cortina will see six more Winter Olympics gold medals awarded. It starts with freeski women’s ski cross and men’s aerials, before the men’s halfpipe competition concludes later.