Alysa Liu withdrew from World Championships citing scheduling conflicts and lack of training time after her historic Olympic gold medal win and surge in social media popularity.

March 8 : U.S. Olympic champion Alysa Liu has withdrawn from the upcoming World Figure Skating Championships, the 20-year-old said on social media on Sunday.Liu became the first American woman since 2002 to capture Olympic gold in women's singles at the recent Milano Cortina Games. The championships are sched

March 8 : U.S. Olympic champion Alysa Liu has withdrawn from the upcoming World Figure Skating Championships, the 20-year-old said on social media on Sunday.Liu became the first American woman since 2002 to capture Olympic gold in women's singles at the recent Milano Cortina Games. The championships are sched

U.S. Olympic figure skating star Alysa Liu has pulled out of the world championships in Prague, only days after she told of a harrowing incident with an | Sports

U.S. Olympic figure skating star Alysa Liu has pulled out of the world championships in Prague, only days after she told of a harrowing incident with an | Sports

Liu is no longer listed among the event's participants on the International Skating Union (ISU) website.

Alysa Liu appears to have withdrawn from World Championships in Prague less than a month after winning Olympic gold. The U.S. skater is no longer listed on the ISU website.

Olympic figure skating champion Alysa Liu has withdrawn from the world championships later this month, an unsurprising move for the defending champ after she won the first Winter Games gold medal by an American woman in more than two decades. Liu would have performed alongside Olympic teammates Amber Glenn and…