The gold medalist previously retired from figure skating when she was 16.
You wouldn’t think you’d have to ask a 20-year-old this question, but Liu has already retired once from skating. Some worried that she would retire again after her dominant performance in Italy, but it sounds like the American superstar has her sights set on the 2030 French Alps Olympics.
“I have no plans to leave yet,” Liu told NBC ahead of Sunday’s closing ceremony, when asked if she may want to “come back for another one.”Phew. It sounds like we’ll get to witness Liu’s greatness for the foreseeable future, and she could look to defend her gold medal win in 2030.at age 16 despite all the success she’d had at that young age. She became the youngest athlete to become the U.S. women’s figure skating champion and was the first American woman. She won another national championship title in 2020 and finished seventh at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. But, at the time, Liu wanted to shift her focus to other aspects of her life. Liu ended up missing skating. In 2024, she announced her return to the sport at age 18, and she’s been extremely successful ever since. She is the reigning world champion and was the silver medalist at the past two U.S. Championships. Check outMadison Williams is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated, where she specializes in tennis but covers a wide range of sports from a national perspective. Before joining SI in 2022, Williams worked at The Sporting News. Having graduated from Augustana College, she completed a master’s in sports media at Northwestern University. She is a dog mom and an avid reader.
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