Rarely have American skaters gone into an Olympics with this much promise: US has a very good chance of winning three golds in figure skating.

The country that has dominated Olympic figure skating ... consecutive Winter Games in Beijing, and a Russian has stood atop the podium in the women's event for the past three Olympics.

Bay Area figure skater Alysa Liu snapped a 19-year drought for the United States on Friday after she became the first American women’s figure skating world champion since 2006. Liu finished with a score of 222.