Resignation with 16, world champion at 19: As an ice skating miracle child, Alysa Liu was always a big jump ahead of her time. Then she took a break, returned – and lands a triumph in the middle of the here and now.
A minute, maybe a little more could still be run in the freestyle, when you saw Aleysa Liu laugh. Actually laugh. It was not a glacial egg princess, not the usual winning expression, frozen into a mask. Instead, a rare expression of happiness stood in Alysa Lius face. Sometimes that is in a show or in an ice revue. But here? At the World Cup, a highly serious competitive sports comparison in front of 19,000 spectators in Boston? “What the Hell!” Said Alysa Liu, 19 years old, in the first interview when she had just become world champion. Something else didn’t go through her head than again and again: what’s going on here? “What the Hell!”