Though he never competed himself, he grew up loving everything about skating. As a teenager, he spent his babysitting money on hard-to-get tapes of skating events until little towers of video boxes filled the house. He devoured every book about skating he could find at the library where his mother worked.

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After her retirement announcement when she was just 16, the champion figure skater is back and ready to make history at the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics. Here, the now-20-year-old tells Cosmo Sports how prioritizing her passion for skating changed everything.

The St. Louis Skating Club, the oldest figure skating club west of the Mississippi, is in the spotlight as the U.S. Figure Skating Championships return to St. Louis for the first time in 20 years.

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By the time she retired from figure skating at the age of 16 in April 2022, Alysa Liu had in many ways already lived a full life.