Alysa Liu won Olympic gold on Thursday -- an unexpected fairy-tale ending to an up-and-down week for the U.S. figure skating team.

Team USA wasn’t expected to get many medals Thursday. But the events it was in contention for were important ones. The U.S. came into Thursday still third in overall medals, still trailing Norway and Italy.

After an amazing free skate, Alysa Liu celebrated her figure skating performance with six explosive words at the Winter Olympics.

While Flyers practice resumes in Voorhees, Rick Tocchet, Travis Sanheim and Rasmus Ristolainen are preparing for the medal round of the 2026 Winter Olympics

Adeliia Petrosian came to Milan as one of the few leading medal contenders on the 13-strong “individual neutral athlete” delegation of Russians competing without the country’s flag and symbols.

Patel took an FBI jet to Italy and plans to watch the Men's USA Olympic hockey team compete in the medal rounds, multiple sources said.

Fans are advocating for Nazgul, the Czechoslovakian wolfdog who went viral on Wednesday, to get his own Olympics medal.

Team USA's Madison Chock and Evan Bates won their first Olympic ice dance medal, but not winning gold was a devastating blow for the American pair.