Alysa Liu lands triple axel, in fourth after Skate Canada short program | NBC Sports

Im heart broken shes retired. Shes sooo amazing.

Alysa Liu is so good at skating I wish I could be as good as her she's super talented

I like this choreography and music also.

Excellent skating. Alysa really improved over last year. There was a lot of artistry in addition to excellent technical skills. Glad she got her triple axel back. Great comeback!!!

She's too heavy. The Russian girls are skinnier which makes them more graceful and jump higher.

She'll be the next Olympic champion. I have the confidence she can get there

Wow, i'd say her skating skills and quality has really improved. The program had a very clean smooth feel to it, and i always love her choreography! She's a great performer.

She doesn’t get much air on her jumps.

I remember the days if you landed a triple axel in competition you were nearly guaranteed to be the highest placed.

Any one know the music used?

Baby girl got big.

She sells this version of her short so much better than her version of it at U.S. Nationals just yesterday. I wonder what happened. Does she like her new coaching team? Is she just tired at this point in the season? Watching the two together are like night and day.

She was attempting that jump at 12. A true savage!!!!!

All down to GOE--correct. Russian skaters, Valieva in particular, are gifted with ridiculous high GOE.

There's always so much energy in her routine. She is so fun and exciting to watch.

Honestly this is boring , no wonder the Russians are going to win

why is no one commenting on the fact that it was very underrotated? that was a glorified double axel, no height, no speed, and her artistry is heavily lacking, she needs a much better choreographer

Tara and Johnny, the two sideshow freaks, STFU!

No hate but it’s so under rotated to even be a triple but it’s not like the rest who do it, do it rotated anyway.

OMG....it is so sad for a Russian to watch this and lament the state of US figure skating...Fast food just isn't doing it for us, is it?

Dude, fix your posture...try a clinic or camp in Moscow.

you have the top 3 Amazing Russians... then, you have...the amateur competition.

Best of the Rest....so...far...behind....RUSSIA!!

She's so cute!! Really hoping she will medal at Olympics. Imagine landing a triple axel in short program and landing in 4th. Welcome to 2021.

That looked like a Yukari Nakano "triple" axel....

how did the commentators hear the announcer pronounce Liu perfectly and then immediately mispronounce it?

It’s interesting how the triple axel doesn’t impress them as much now. I was just watching Tonya Harding’s triple axel and the commentators went crazy when she did it. Why they don’t crazy for Lou too?! It still takes a lot for them to do it, it’s so impressive!!

She's a lovely skater! I can't wait to see her perfect her craft as she achieves her goals!

That triple axial means nothing anymore, girls are doing quads in their programs now. Twenty years too late!!!

I feel like she’s a great technical performer but artistic merit is definitely lacking. This is likely a result of the new scoring system’s emphasis on jumps over artistry.

And she did it wearing blue nail polish. Tonya was just born too soon.

i still feel she not on the senior level on performance wise nad jumping

The footwork are phenomenal 💙 good job💙

This blew my mind, incredible. Perfection, life, was in this performance.

yaaaawn. .

She should win, with a triple axel.

she’s like a spark of fire on the ice!

She has grown so much artistically and technically why 4th place

Such improvement!! I enjoyed the choreography. Good job, my dear!

Not a bad program. She is getting better. Needs to grow in her artistry.

A STAR IS BORN!!!

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Personally - loved the choreography and felt like she was downgraded on what appeared to be perfectly acceptable jumps. Wondering if she is working on quads.

Alysa has come leaps and bounds in terms of speed and artistry. I think a VERY quick fix to her artistry that's going to make a huge difference is if she stopped smiling throughout her program -- it's a very Junior-level way of presenting to the judges. Instead, she should serve face and emotions that line up with the music.

got some great spins as well!

Need to improve artistry

Am I wrong that triple axles were not uncommon previously? What's the deal with current skaters? Frankly I would rather see skaters learn more about using their arms and leaning into choreography and stop focusing so strictly on execution points. Stop trying to convince me that all this arm waving is artistic.

Если сравнивать Алису с Косторной,то та ей много проигрывает по силе,энергетике и по катанию!Алиса намного интереснее.

Cheer up, welcome back!

I know she didn’t land them all the time but when Tonya hit her triple axles they were huge, most of these girls triple jumps now are so small not explosive like back in the day