The U.S. Olympic figure skating team, including Alysa Liu, trains individually across the country as they prepare for the Milan-Cortina Olympics. The team rarely trains together ahead of the games.

Before Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu seeks gold, her coach, Phillip DiGuglielmo, has to find ice.

"We don't really see each other much," Liu said. "We're skating pretty separately. I don't skate with another, like, member I compete with right now. But we see each other at some competitions."

DiGuglielmo explained the situation, saying, "I mean, if there's a luge track, there's only two luge tracks in the whole United States. So you're basically training together or bobsled, right? Here we have hundreds of skating rinks."

Alysa Liu lives in Oakland, California, and trains at San Francis

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