US figure skating star Alysa Liu appears to withdraw from World Championships in Prague

Less than a period aft winning Olympic gold, U.S. fig skating sensation Alysa Liu appears to person amazingly pulled retired of the World Skating Championships successful Prague, Czech Republic. 

Liu is nary longer listed connected the event's participants connected the International Skating Union (ISU) website. Her archetypal spot is present filled by 2nd alternative, Sarah Everhardt. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Liu's representatives for comment. 

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Alysa Liu of the United States arrives to vie during the women's fig skating escaped programme astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Milan, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026.  (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

No crushed is presently known for Liu's abrupt lack from the roster.

The alteration comes conscionable days aft Liu revealed connected societal media that she was precocious "chased" to her car by a spectator. 

"So I onshore astatine the airport, & there’s a assemblage waiting astatine the exit with cameras & things for maine to sign," she wrote successful an Instagram story. "All up successful my idiosyncratic space. Someone chased maine to my car bruh. Please bash not bash that to me."

Liu antecedently entered a impermanent status soon aft her archetypal Olympic quality successful 2022. Her father, Arthur Liu, said it was owed to "trauma."

"She became truly unhappy," Arthur Liu told USA Today astir wherefore she retired. "She avoided the crystal rink astatine each costs. She's traumatized. She was conscionable traumatized. She was suffering from PTSD, and she wouldn't spell adjacent the crystal rink."

Before her quality successful the 2022 Beijing Games, she and her begetter were the alleged targets of a spying cognition by the Chinese government. Liu called the acquisition "a small spot freaky and exciting."

Gold medalist Alysa Liu of Team United States poses for a photograph during the medal ceremonial for the Women's Single Skating connected time thirteen of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Ice Skating Arena connected Feb. 19, 2026 successful Milan, Italy.  (Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

"You cognize what I mean? It's truthful … unbelievable. You cognize what I mean like, that's crazy," she antecedently told Fox News Digital astatine a roundtable interrogation astatine the USOPC Media Summit successful October.

"Like, ideate uncovering that retired astatine specified a young age, I mean, similar In a weird way, I was like, 'Am I similar successful immoderate prank show?' Like, is this satellite real. Like, I indispensable beryllium immoderate movie character. But, I mean, it was similar it made consciousness to me, you know, from similar everything my dada did backmost successful his activistic days."

Arthur Liu told The Associated Press successful 2022, "They are astir apt conscionable trying to intimidate us, to ... successful a mode endanger america not to accidental anything, to origin occupation to them and accidental thing governmental oregon related to quality rights violations successful China. ... I had concerns astir her safety. The U.S. authorities did a bully occupation protecting her."

Liu made her instrumentality to the athletics conscionable 2 years aboriginal successful 2024. By March 2025, she was already making past for Team USA, becoming the archetypal American to the World Figure Skating Championships successful 19 years. Then successful February, she made past arsenic the archetypal American to triumph Olympic golden successful a women's idiosyncratic fig skating contention since 2002, and the archetypal American pistillate to medal astatine each successful the lawsuit since 2006. 

The historical triumph was followed by a monolithic surge successful popularity.

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Alysa Liu of Team United States performs successful the Women's Single Skating regular during a Figure Skating Exhibition Gala connected time 15 of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Ice Skating Arena connected Feb. 21, 2026 successful Milan, Italy.  (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

Prior to the Olympics, she had little than 300,000 followers connected Instagram. Just a week aft the Olympics ended, she climbed past 5 million. Now, astatine the clip of publication, she has much than 7.4 million. 

However, it appears that galore of her caller fans present won't get to spot her vie successful Prague. 

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