Alysa Liu wore the smudge of blood on her dress at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Thursday ... Shea more than eight ahead of second-place Emily Chan and Spencer Howe heading into ...

Liu landed a triple flip-triple toe loop combination, double Axel and triple Lutz. She finished, then buried her face in her hands, bent over her knees and appeared to tear up. She let loose on emotions that began stirring a few minutes earlier, when she first stepped on the ice for her program to “Promise” by Laufey.

Recent U.S. figure skating eras have, largely, been defined by one discipline at a time: the women’s singles champions of the 1990s and early 2000s, the ice dance boom of the late 2000s and early 2010s (not forgetting Evan Lysacek) and then Nathan Chen in the last two Olympic cycles.

Alysa Liu wore the smudge of blood on her dress at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Thursday ... Shea more than eight ahead of second-place Emily Chan and Spencer Howe heading into ...

U.S. Figure Skating Championships results for the men's, women's, pairs' and ice dance events in Wichita, Kansas.

Italian ice dancers Charlène Guignard and Marco Fabbri closed in on a third consecutive title as the European figure skating championships continued Friday, with the skating community in shock following the fatal mid-air collision near Washington,

Officials said the plane went down in the river near Reagan Airport. The airport said emergency crews were responding to an “aircraft incident.”

The Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships air live this week from Wichita, Kansas, on NBC Sports, USA Network and Peacock. The field includes every national champion from last January: Ilia Malinin, Amber Glenn, ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates and the pairs’ team of Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea.

Among those athletes competing in Wichita are former and hopefully future Olympians, many of whom are also defending national champions.

The U.S. worlds team was chosen during the U.S. national championships in Wichita over the weekend, and skaters are starting to put together their resume for the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics next February.

World champion Ilia Malinin leads by the largest margin in U.S. Figure Skating Championships history after the men’s short program, seeking a third consecutive national title.

The 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships continued with the ... Kam and O'Shea now hold an 8.09-point lead over Emily Chan and Spencer Howe heading into the free skate on Saturday.