{"id":45517,"date":"2025-03-29T17:04:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T14:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=45517"},"modified":"2025-03-29T17:04:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T14:04:05","slug":"alysa-liu-delivers-the-us-its-first-womens-figure-skating-world-championship-in-nearly-2-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/alysa-liu-delivers-the-us-its-first-womens-figure-skating-world-championship-in-nearly-2-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Alysa Liu Delivers the US Its First Women\u2019s Figure Skating World Championship in Nearly 2 Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alysa Liu skated around the ice in disbelief, her golden dress shimmering in the lights of TD Garden, and the appreciative roar from a sellout crowd reminded her why she had returned to the sport following a nearly two-year retirement.<\/p>\n<p>When her score was finally read, the 19-year-old from Clovis, California, had made history.<\/p>\n<p>Liu became the first American women\u2019s figure skating world champion in nearly two decades, dethroning three-time defending champ Kaori Sakamoto with a brilliant free skate Friday night. Her program to a rendition of &#8220;MacArthur Park&#8221; by Boston native Donna Summer earned her a standing ovation, and allowed Liu to finish with 222.97 points.<br \/>\n&#8220;I mean, it means so much to me and everything I&#8217;ve been through,&#8221; Liu said. &#8220;My last skating experience, my time away and this time around \u2014 I&#8217;m so happy, I guess. I&#8217;m mostly glad I could put out two of my best performances.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alysa Liu skated around the ice in disbelief, her golden dress shimmering in the lights of TD Garden, and the appreciative roar from a sellout crowd reminded her why she had returned to the sport following a nearly two-year retirement. When her score was finally read, the 19-year-old from Clovis, California, had made history. Liu &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45519,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45517\/revisions\/45519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}