Olympics: Liu wins women's figure skating gold for U.S., denying Sakamoto

American Alysa Liu spoiled Japan's women's figure skating party by winning gold at the Milan Cortina Olympic Games on Thursday, beating silver medalist Kaori Sakamoto and bronze winner Ami Nakai.Both the Japanese medalists made errors on triple toe loop attempts at the Milano Ice Skating Arena, with Nakai only completing a double and Sakamoto missing hers entirely, costing them a chance at gold."Honestly, I really wanted to deliver a perfect performance here. The parts I couldn't execute perfectly were exactly the points that cost me the victory, so that was extremely painful and the tears …READ FULL ARTICLE