Team USA figure skater Alysa Liu delivered a superb routine to win gold in dramatic fashion, highlighting an action-packed Day 13 at the Milan Cortina Games. Liu secured the first gold medal since 2002,

Isabeau Levito, an 18-year-old figure skater from Mount Holly, competed for the first time in the Milano Cortina Olympics on Tuesday.

A major drought ended, as Alysa Liu became the first American woman since 2006 to medal in figure skating, and the first since 2002 to win gold. She bested Japan's Kaori Sakamoto (silver) and Ami Nakai (bronze) for the top spot after a flawless free skate.

Thursday at the Olympics was headlined by figure skater Alysa Liu snapping a 20-year American drought and the U.S. defeating Canada for women's hockey gold.

Cortina Winter Olympics as Great Britain's men bid to reach curling final and medal hope Zoe Atkin competes in halfpipe qualification.

Liu, 20, earned the first individual Olympic medal for an American woman since Sasha Cohen’s silver in 2006 — the first gold medal winner since Sarah Hughes in 2002. And she did so with a smile, marking a triumph and return to glory for American women’s skating.

MILAN (AP) — On a night of American comebacks at the Milan Cortina Games, Alysa Liu delivered the U.S. its first women’s figure skating Olympic gold medal in 24 years. The 20-year-old Liu performed a near-flawless free skate Thursday to upstage Japanese rivals Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai.

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