A movie in Hollywood…” The “turbulent drama” that Alisa Liu, the gold medalist in women’s figure figure skating, walked with her father.

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Alisa Liu (20), representing the U.S., won the gold medal in the women’s single figure at the Winter Olympics in Cortina, Milan, surpassing Kaori Sakamoto (25, silver medal) and Ami Nakai (17, bronze medal). Her spectacular performance and her friendship with the Japanese athletes attracted much attention.
In the midst of all this, the turbulent drama between Alisa and her father, Arthur Liu, the lawyer who led her into the world of figure skating, has been widely reported in the U.S. media and has become a topic of conversation.
Arthur was born and raised in a small mountain village in China’s Sichuan Province, the son of six siblings, his father a civil servant and his mother a farmer. It was in his twenties that Arthur’s life changed dramatically.
According to USA TODAY (electronic edition), Arthur told the newspaper that while attending university in Guangzhou, he organized pro-democracy demonstrations and hunger strikes in solidarity with the Beijing student movement.
In June 1989, he organized a protest against the Tiananmen Square protests, in which tanks were mobilized and force was used to suppress the pro-democracy demonstrations. He was later summoned by the authorities for questioning.
“He refused to reveal the names of the students who participated in the organization of the demonstration.
He was placed on the “most wanted list,” and it was only a matter of time before he was sent to prison. However, with the help of a male acquaintance, he escaped from China by boat to Hong Kong, then under British rule, and then to the United States.
She moved to California, received her law degree from the University of California, became a lawyer, and established the Inter-Pacific Law Group. He then had five daughters, including his eldest daughter, Alisa, by surrogate motherhood through an anonymous egg donor. Arthur is a single father, and his mother immigrated to the United States to help raise Alisa and her children.
Alisa began figure skating at the age of five. Mr. Arthur saw Alisa’s natural talent and gave her the best coaching and took her around the world. Alisa in an interview with CNN’s “60Minutes” on January 4 this year,
When I was 13 and 14, I was skating every day. It was a very unique childhood.
She recalls, “It was a very peculiar childhood.
In 1919, at the age of 13, Alisa won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, becoming the youngest female figure skater in U.S. history. She became the youngest female figure skater in U.S. history to win a national championship. She also became the first female figure skater in the U.S. to land three triple axels, and her prodigious talent made her a star.
A strange thing happened with regard to her participation in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Arthur and his family, including Alisa, were reportedly monitored and spied on by the Chinese, and the FBI took the family into custody and provided them with at least two guards for the duration of the Games. Fox News Digtal in the US reports.
Free from her father’s control, she won the gold medal.
Alisa shocked the nation when she announced her retirement in April 2010, just after finishing sixth at the Beijing Winter Olympics, at the age of only 16.
She said at the time that the rink was closed due to the COVID-19 crisis, and she began to spend time with her family, who had been living apart from her, and she didn’t want to return to her life of skating.
But two years later, in March ’24, Alisa announced her return to active skating on her Instagram. Two years later, in March 2012, she announced her return to the rink on her Instagram page.
Before that, Arthur had strictly controlled her training and changed her coach and choreographer several times, but she agreed to return on condition that he would have full decision-making authority over all aspects of her training. Now that she is free from her father’s control, she has flown even bigger,” said a skater.
She made a spectacular comeback, winning the World Championships in ’25 and two gold medals (single and team) representing the U.S. at this Winter Olympics.
One of the reasons for her strength may be that the family has gone through a turbulent history.
In the midst of all this, the possibility of Hollywood making a movie out of the turbulent drama between Mr. Arthur and Alisa’s father and daughter is being discussed.
Alisa told Fox News Digtal as mentioned above,
I want to focus on my father’s story. His story is really great, and I think it all happened because of his actions.
He said. Will it be a documentary or a play? If it is a feature film, who will play the roles of Arthur and Alisa?
And with Sakamoto having announced her retirement from the women’s figure skating team, one can only hope that Nakai, Chiba Momone (20), and other young athletes will take up the challenge of portraying Arisa, and that a new drama will be born.
Interview and text by: Ryo Sakamoto (Writer, former head of the Culture and Society Department of Tokyo Sports Newspaper) PHOTO.: Jumeau Alexis/ABACA/Kyodo News Images