Alysa Liu, of the US, competes within the ladies’s brief program in the course of the determine skating on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/David J. Phillip)
Bay Space prodigy Alysa Liu grins via Olympic debut
The Richmond teen skated her approach into Thursday’s free skate together with her brief efficiency on Tuesday night time, scoring 69.5 to position eighth in that contest, in response to Olympics.com.
Liu, who has beforehand nailed a triple Axel, opted for a double Axel in her opening. She adopted that up with a triple flip and triple Lutz/triple toe-loop together in her skate, set to “Gypsy Dance.”
Alysa Liu of Group United States skates in the course of the ladies’s brief program on Day 11 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games at Capital Indoor Stadium on February 15, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Picture by Catherine Ivill/Getty Photographs)
“I’m actually proud of how I skated,” the 16-year-old Liu instructed Olympics.com. “Irrespective of how I did, I used to be going to be completely satisfied. I’m actually glad that I went for all my jumps and I didn’t fall.”
Because the New York Occasions put it: No person is having extra enjoyable right here than Alysa Liu.
Karen Chen, Liu’s teammate and a fellow Bay Space native, completed thirteenth and likewise advances to the free skate. She accomplished a triple-triple combo however fell on her closing leap, a triple loop, and scored a 64.11.
Karen Chen of Group United States skates her brief program on Day 11 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games, February 15, 2022. (Picture by Justin Setterfield/Getty Photographs)
Eileen Gu earns silver medal in ladies’s ski slopestyle, her 2nd medal in Beijing
The standout American-born freestyle skier who represents China completed runner-up together with her final run of the Olympic ladies’s slopestyle contest on Tuesday, Related Press reported.
Her efficiency retains alive the San Francisco teen’s quest to change into the primary action-sports athlete to seize three medals on the similar Winter Video games.
Silver medal winner China’s Eileen Gu in the course of the award ceremony for the ladies’s slopestyle on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Francisco Seco)
China’s Eileen Gu competes in the course of the ladies’s slopestyle finals on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Gregory Bull)
Kamila Valieva of Group ROC reacts after skating her brief program on February 15, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Picture by Harry How/Getty Photographs)
Kamila Valieva skates into first place after Olympic brief program
The closely favored 15-year-old dynamo on the heart of the newest Olympic doping scandal overcame an early mistake to steer after the ladies’s brief program on the Beijing Video games on Tuesday night time, AP reported.
Arthur Liu, the daddy of Valieva’s competitor Alysa Liu, denounced the choice to permit Valieva to compete.
“She examined optimistic for a banned drug. What’s not clear about it? She must be out. That is so simple as that. What sort of message are they sending to hundreds of thousands of younger girls and boys in sports activities — notably determine skaters? That cheaters are allowed to compete within the Olympics, the holiest competitors on the planet. It completely destroys the Olympic spirit.”
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Dominik Peter of Group Switzerland competes in the course of the Males’s Group Ski Leaping first spherical in Zhangjiakou, China. (Picture by Patrick Smith/Getty Photographs)
Norway’s Joergen Graabak celebrates after successful the gold medal in the course of the cross-country snowboarding portion of the person Gundersen massive hill/10km competitors on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Alessandra Tarantino)
Madeline Schizas, of Canada, competes within the ladies’s brief program in the course of the determine skating on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Jeff Roberson)
Eduard Latypov of Group ROC shoots throughout warmup previous to the Males’s Biathlon 4×7.5km Relay in Zhangjiakou, China. (Picture by Clive Rose/Getty Photographs)
Austria’s Daniel Bacher competes in the course of the males’s slopestyle qualification on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Lee Jin-man)
Icicles hold on the hair of a volunteer in the course of the males’s aerials qualification on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Lee Jin-man)
Group United States — Casey Dawson at entrance, Emery Lehman and Ethan Cepuran — competes in the course of the speedskating males’s workforce pursuit semifinals on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Sue Ogrocki)
Spectators look on in the course of the Girls’s Snowboard Massive Air medal ceremony. (Picture by David Ramos/Getty Photographs)
Liubov Nikitina of Group ROC crashes in the course of the Girls’s Freestyle Snowboarding Aerials Qualification of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou, China. (Picture by Ezra Shaw/Getty Photographs)
Estonia’s Kelly Sildaru competes in the course of the ladies’s slopestyle finals on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Gregory Bull)
Norway’s Joergen Graabak, proper, celebrates as he wins the cross-country snowboarding portion of the person Gundersen massive hill/10km competitors on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Aaron Favila)
Norway’s Joergen Graabak competes in the course of the cross-country snowboarding portion of the person Gundersen massive hill/10km competitors on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Alessandra Tarantino)
From left, Ben Loomis, France’s Matteo Baud, Jared Shumate and France’s Antoine Gerard compete in the course of the cross-country snowboarding portion of the person Gundersen massive hill/10km competitors on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Aaron Favila)
Sofia Goggia, of Italy, kisses a digicam after ending the ladies’s downhill on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, within the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Picture/Luca Bruno)
China’s Jian An (Cory Kane), entrance left, is congratulated after scoring a aim in opposition to Canada throughout a males’s qualification spherical hockey recreation on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Picture/Matt Slocum)
Goalkeeper Sebastian Dahm #32 of Group Denmark reacts to defeating Group Latvia 3-2 in the course of the Males’s Ice Hockey Qualification match on February 15, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Picture by Harry How/Getty Photographs)
Yoshito Watabe, of Japan, soars via the air in the course of the trial spherical of the person Gundersen massive hill/10km competitors on the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Picture/Matthias Schrader)
The moon rises close to the sliding heart in the course of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, within the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Picture/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Gold medalist Anna Gasser of Group Austria (heart), silver medalist Zoi Sadowski Synnott of Group New Zealand (left) and bronze medalist Kokomo Murase of Group Japan pose with their medals for Girls’s Snowboard Massive Air at Beijing Medal Plaza on February 15, 2022. (Picture by Elsa/Getty Photographs)
Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue of Group United States in the course of the Ice Dance Free Dance at Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China. (Picture by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Photographs)
Kamila Valieva of Group ROC skates her brief program at Capital Indoor Stadium on February 15, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Picture by Catherine Ivill/Getty Photographs)
Alysa Liu of Group United States skates her brief program at Capital Indoor Stadium on February 15, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Picture by Harry How/Getty Photographs)
Kamila Valieva of Group ROC waits for her rating with choreographer Daniil Gleikhengauz, proper, and coach Eteri Tutberidze at Capital Indoor Stadium on February 15, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Picture by Matthew Stockman/Getty Photographs)
Shanwayne Stephens and Nimroy Turgott of Group Jamaica slide in the course of the 2-man Bobsleigh Warmth 3 on day 11 of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games. (Picture by Julian Finney/Getty Photographs)
Shanwayne Stephens and Nimroy Turgott of Group Jamaica react after the 2-man Bobsleigh Warmth 3. (Picture by Alex Pantling/Getty Photographs)
