When Team USA figure skater Alysa Liu came out of retirement in 2024 to prepare for the 2026 Winter Olympics, the decision was hers alone, just as it was when she retired two years earlier. Alysa, 20, recalled her father, Arthur Liu, being mad at her choice to step back from the sport and she took that with her in her return to the ice. "I didn't want him to be mad that I was coming back," Alysa told Rolling Stone in a video interview posted on Saturday, March 7. "I just didn't want him to care, like, at all. It shouldn't affect him as much as it did the last time.