MILAN — There are roughly 2,900 athletes in the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, all trying to win medals — except for one.
Already a gold medalist in the figure skating team event, Alysa Liu has a chance to add to the haul by taking home another piece of hardware in the all-important women’s singles. After the short program, she’s in position to do so, standing in third place behind the Japanese pair of Ami Nakai and Kaori Sakamoto.
Yet that’s not the top prize on Liu’s mind.
"I just really want to be invited to the Olympic Gala, so I'm just putting it out there,” she said. "I have a really cool gala program that I'm working on, and it's basically done. I have a dress for it and everything. I just got it today. So I'm thinking about it."
OK, what about a medal?
