BEIJING — The 2022 Winter Olympics will likely be remembered as both controversial and isolating. They've featured political tensions and severe COVID-19 restrictions. Questions about the whereabouts of Peng Shuai and forced labor camps in Xinjiang. Plexiglass barriers. A Russian doping scandal. Complaints from athletes about quality of food and quarantine conditions.
But you wouldn't know any of that from talking with 16-year-old figure skater Alysa Liu.
"ITS BEEN SO FUN SO FAR," she wrote on Instagram last week.
The youngest athlete on Team USA in Beijing, Liu said she's been having a blast in her first trip to the Games, despite all the negativity surrounding them.