Whoever said "quitters never win," never met Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu .

Liu became the youngest U.S. figure skating champ at 13. She's the first female figure skater to land a quadruple jump in international competition. And she's a bronze medalist from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

But at age 16, she announced her retirement from figure skating. Liu said she hated skating by that point and had been planning her exit for a year before she did it.

Liu had skated since the age of 5. Skating can be a solitary and controlled sport. She craved teen normalcy, time with friends and freedom. She put her skates in the closet and said she didn't miss the ice at all.

"I left the sport completely," Liu said. "Like I wouldn't step in the rink. Honestly, I was low-key traumatized."

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