1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,360 Speaker 1: That gold medal winning ice skater Alyssa lou Her story 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: is absolutely incredible. I don't know if you're familiar with 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:14,080 Speaker 1: everything about this young woman. She was a prodigy, was 4 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: a world champion, was an Olympian, and at the age 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: of sixteen, said this is too much for me. I 6 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 1: am retiring from the world of skating, went on a 7 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: few vacations, said she wanted to actually just be a teenager, 8 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: enjoy her life and be a kid again and not 9 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:35,640 Speaker 1: have all of the pressure, And then went on a 10 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: ski trip and realized that she kind of liked the 11 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,960 Speaker 1: competition and wanted to go back to ice skating, but 12 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: this time she wanted to. 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,520 Speaker 2: Do it under her rules. 14 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: She wanted her dad to not pick the music, not 15 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: decide everything for her. She wanted to be in control 16 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: of her own destiny and ended up, you know, finding 17 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 1: the joy in the competition, and you could clearly see 18 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: it last night on her performance. 19 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 3: Yes, there's a lot of aspects to her story. So 20 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 3: let's go back and talk about her dad again, because 21 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:16,479 Speaker 3: her uh, her father immigrated to this country. So her 22 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 3: father was part of the Tienamen Square protests in China 23 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,760 Speaker 3: back in the eighties and then obviously China crack down 24 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 3: hard on those they were looking for, all the protest organizers. 25 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 3: So he leaves China, immigrates legally to the United States, 26 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 3: ends up having six kids here, becomes a lawyer, very 27 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 3: successful attorney, four kids, okay, but has a whole passle 28 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,720 Speaker 3: full of kids. Comes here as a very successful attorney, 29 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 3: and then you know, sees this talent in his daughter 30 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 3: and you know, encourages her to become a figure skater. 31 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 3: And now here she is, all these years later and 32 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 3: a gold medal winner for the United States of America. 33 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:56,440 Speaker 1: It was also reported that they were spying on them 34 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,760 Speaker 1: and they were trying to get her to represent China 35 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,800 Speaker 1: in the Olympics, prompted an FBI intervention, and they wanted 36 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: to pay her to skate for China, and her and 37 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 1: her family said no, we're skating for America. And then 38 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: she became the first American in twenty years to win 39 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 1: the Olympic gold medal in ice skating. 40 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:18,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. 41 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 3: I mean, so there's a contrasts very much with Eileen 42 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 3: gru who is the American born and you know, went 43 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 3: to American universities, and she's a downhill skier and she's 44 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 3: an American citizen. But in the last two Winter Olympics, 45 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 3: she's been competing for the Chinese and it finally came 46 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 3: out she's making fifteen to twenty million dollars a year 47 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 3: from China, and that's why she competed with the for 48 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 3: the Chinese the last two Winter Olympics, despite the fact 49 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,519 Speaker 3: that she's an American citizen. And so they Chinese basically 50 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 3: tried to do the same thing to this ice skater 51 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 3: here and basically tried to recruit her and get her 52 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,560 Speaker 3: to come and, you know, compete for China and give 53 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:55,960 Speaker 3: her millions and millions of dollars. So you've got this 54 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,839 Speaker 3: real contrast here of the downhill skier that took China 55 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 3: up on the offer and took all the money, and 56 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 3: then you've got the American figure skater that didn't who 57 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 3: ended up winning gold. 58 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, beautiful skating routine and her father, persecuted by the 59 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 1: CCP fled to America. Her daughter wins Olympic gold for 60 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: the United States of America. Just a great American story. 61 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: She was asked if she felt the pressure, and she said, 62 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: you know, no, man, I just want to have fun. 63 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 1: Do you feel any kind of pressure that now I've 64 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: got it tod the Olympics and I need to win gold. 65 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 4: No, actually, I'm really excited because my goal, honestly is 66 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 4: just to hype people up, give them an experience, whether 67 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 4: it's negative or positive. As long as people are feeling 68 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 4: some strong emotions and anticipation, I'm fine with that. 69 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 2: I think people did feel some strong emotions. 70 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:49,160 Speaker 1: She did, you see when they were doing the metal ceremony, 71 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 1: playing the national anthem, and at one point she was 72 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: which which. 73 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 2: Hand do I put over my heart? 74 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: Like she was going to lift the wrong hand, and nope, 75 00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: that's not right, and she ended up placing her hand 76 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 1: over heart during the national anthem. 77 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 2: Now, don't get it wrong, don't get it twisted. 78 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: She has very progressive views, however, proud to be in America. 79 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 3: Very proud to be an American, and very proud to 80 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 3: represent the United States of America, and she's talked about that. 81 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 3: It is also the first women's individual Olympic ice skating 82 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 3: gold medal since the Salt Lake City Olympics in two 83 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,839 Speaker 3: thousand and two, so twenty four years since an individual 84 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 3: woman has won gold medal for the United States in 85 00:04:27,480 --> 00:04:28,000 Speaker 3: ice skating. 86 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 2: She stopped the drought on that for sure.