Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu clarifies how to really pronounce her name

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Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu clarifies how to really pronounce her name
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“So technically this is how my family says my name,” she explained. “That’s technically how you say my name.”Alysa Liu revealed the real way to pronounce her name in a new interview.The Olympian said her first name is pronounced “Ah-lee-sa” and her last name is pronounced “Lee-oh.

”Connor Storrie strips for ‘SNL,’ hockey stars, Hudson Williams stop byThe figure skater noted that “Ah-liss-uh” is how her friends and “the world” say her first name, while her last name is often mispronounced “Lu.” “I personally don’t care,” she added of the common mistake. “Cause technically, the right way is ‘Lee-oh.’ But that can be hard to pronounce. I don’t expect people to know how to say that.”Liu acknowledged that the correct way to say her last name “can be hard to pronounce.”“I don’t expect people to know how to say that,” said Liu “After I won, was no sleep…. I went home and I literally did whatever I wanted for five days,” she shared. “I didn’t have any media, and I had no commitments, so it was really great,” Liu continued. “I got to see a lot of my friends again, and just relax and catch up on sleep. I skated twice just because I wanted to.”“I pick hanging out with my friends over a session, and if that makes me a worse skater, so be it,” she told the outlet. “I don’t care.”Liu won two gold medals at the 2026 Winter Olympics.The figure skater has been dealing with intense fame over the last few weeks.“So I land at the airport & there’s a crowd waiting at the exit with cameras & things for me to sign,” she wrote in a March 4 post on her Instagram Stories. “All up in my personal space. Someone chased me to my car bruh,” she continued, before pleading, “Please do not do that to me.”Meghan Markle and Paige DeSorbo have this mascara that ‘never smudges’ in common'Ghostbusters' star Jennifer Runyon dead at 65Ousted CBS anchor Josh Elliott, wife Liz Cho locked in nasty divorce battle after a decade of marriage ‘House Of Villains’ Star Kate Chastain Still Questions If JoJo Siwa Did ‘Special Forces’ Because She Was Broke: “I Hope To Never Reach That Point In My Life”Amy Adams’ daughter Aviana, 15, is all grown up in rare Paris Fashion Week appearanceMore Page Six Style Alysa Liu revealed the real way to pronounce her name in a new interview.The Olympian said her first name is pronounced “Ah-lee-sa" and her last name is pronounced"Lee-oh."Liu acknowledged that the correct way to say her last name"can be hard to pronounce.""I don’t expect people to know how to say that," said Liu Liu won two gold medals at the 2026 Winter Olympics.The figure skater has been dealing with intense fame over the last few weeks.

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