A fully validated quad at a women’s skating event didn’t happen until 2002 when Miki Ando of Japan successfully executed a quadruple salchow at the Junior Grand Prix Final. Ando tried to land the first quad at an Olympics, in 2006 but fell and only received credit for a triple.

The final figure skating event of the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics has come and gone, and boy, was it a good one. Team USA's Alysa Liu took home the gold on Thursday following a flawless performance to Donna Summer's "MacArthur Park," a star-solidifying ...

With her historic win, Liu has become the first American woman to win individual Olympic gold in figure skating since Sarah Hughes in 2002 — three years before she was even born.

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Three-time world champions and seven-time U.S. champs Madison Chock and Evan Bates are close behind in second, after having performed their rhythm dance to a Lenny Kravitz medley of “American Woman,” “Fly Away,” “Always on the Run” and “Are You Gonna Go My Way.” The duo also won a gold medal in the team event with Team USA over the weekend.

The Olympic figure skater did her frenulum piercing herself — with a needle and her sister's help.