Twelkyz

Vanité des vanités, tout est vanité

[Jackie Wong @rockerskating]

Thought about Carolina Kostner’s SP today

[Twelkyz @Twelkyz]

@AnnaKubista Merci pour cette référence dont je prends note.
🙏🏻

[Vanguard WWII by Cadet - bringing history to life! @Vanguard_WW2]

For International Women's Day 2026 we honour Tania Szabo who, whilst not a participant in World War Two, has lived her life in its long shadow.
Born in June 1942, her father Etienne would die with Free French forces in the El-Alamein fighting four months later.
Her mother, Violette, went on to join the Special Operations Executive and was infiltrated twice into occupied France.
Caught by the Germans, Violette was eventually sent to a concentration camp and murdered there in February 1945.
Tania has spent much of her life carving her parents' names with pride so that they will not be forgotten.

[SPORTRICOLORE @sportricolore]

🇫🇷 Champion @sportricolore du mois de février ➡️ Julia Simon 🏆

Amplement mérité pour notre biathlète, brillante lors des Jeux de Milan-Cortina avec 4 médailles (3🥇 et 1🥈) 👏

Immense championne.

📸 CNOSF/KMSP

[Fédé 🇫🇷 de la Lose @FFLose]

C'est une chute sans fond ce sport.

👉 https://t.co/iPKoX76oCz 🗞️

[Twelkyz @Twelkyz]

@europeonice Alysa’s free program and victory (and the bronze for Italy in the team event… Matteo !!!).

[Giochi Olimpici™ @giochiolimpici]

🇫🇷 France strikes again in Biathlon (Women’s 12.5km Mass Start):

🥇 Océane Michelon
🥈 Julia Simon

The French Biathlon tally now stands at:
6x 🥇
4x 🥈
3x 🥉

Le biathlon parle français. 🇫🇷

#MilanoCortina2026 #Olympics #Biathlon

[Jeux Olympiques™ @jeuxolympiques]

6 TITRES, 13 MÉDAILLES 🤩

Un résultat historique pour le biathlon français au Jeux de #MilanoCortina2026 🥇🥈🥉

#JeuxOlympiques

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Alysa Liu just won Olympic gold.

She retired at 16. Was traumatized by the sport. Wouldn't go near an ice rink.

And just delivered a career-best on the biggest stage on earth. It's the most compelling comeback story in sports right now.

At 13, Liu was the youngest US national champion ever. At 16, she finished 6th at the Olympics.

She was a prodigy being told what to eat, what to wear, what music to skate to, and when to train. She lived in a dorm alone at the Olympic Training Center.

And she was miserable.

"The rink was my home for far too long... And I didn't have a choice,"

So she quit.

She'd lost something essential: the feeling that any of it was hers. She had no autonomy.

So she went the other direction. She went to Nepal. Trekked to Everest Base Camp. Got her driver's license. Dyed her hair. Attended college. She lived life.

As Liu put it: “Quitting was definitely, and still to this day, one of my best decisions ever.”

She built an identity that wasn't tied solely to the ice. She figured out who she was as a human being.

Then in early 2024, she went skiing and felt something she hadn't felt in two years: an adrenaline rush.

If skiing feels like this, what would skating feel like? She went to a public session. Landed a double axel and triple salchow on the spot.

Two weeks later, she was back, but this time on her own terms.

She came back because she wanted to.

"I choose to be here. I loved that I was able to come back and choose my own destiny."

That shift from external obligation to internal choice is the point.

A mountain of research tells us autonomy is one of the most powerful driver of sustained motivation.

Self-Determination Theory is one of the most established theories in psychology.

When people feel ownership over their pursuits, performance goes up, burnout goes down, and creativity skyrockets.

Her coach, Phillip DiGuglielmo, nailed it: "For many years she was dropped off at the rink. She was told what to do. Now she comes in, and it is all collaborative."

She picks her own music. Designs her own costumes. Controls her training load.

"No one's gonna starve me or tell me what I can and can't eat."

We often get performance wrong.

We think the path to greatness is more control, more structure, more sacrifice. We push young phenoms to "grind", to be disciplined...

Not realizing we're often extinguishing the flame that makes them great. It's what psychologist Ellen Winner found when studying prodigies.

They have the "rage to master," but over controlling environments suck the passion and joy out of them, snugging out that rage. Those who make it to adult staff have support, but their drive is more intrinsic than extrinsic.

Liu's career-best came AFTER she walked away, lived her life, and came back with agency.

Tonight she skated to Donna Summer's MacArthur Park with platinum blonde streaks, a lip piercing, and the biggest smile in the building. Career-best 226.79.

First American woman to win Olympic gold in figure skating in 24 years.

It was pure joy.

Her message to the camera: "That's what I'm f---ing talking about."

Everyone wants to know the secret to elite performance. It's not complicated.

Give people ownership.

Let them bring themselves to the performance, instead of squashing the joy and authenticity out of them.

Alysa Liu retired at 16 because skating wasn't hers anymore.

She won Olympic gold at 20 because it finally was.

Be yourself. Go all the way.

[Dana O'Neil @DanaONeilWriter]

Say good morning to your new Olympic champion. "You’re going to have to explain to me what Olympic pressure is. Like, who’s giving it? What’s the pressure?’’

https://t.co/ytgqKs9xvc

[Twelkyz @Twelkyz]

@insideskating Wonderful !

[Sara Bibel @deepsoap]

Alysa is going to become a billionaire off her book How to DGAF-About-the-Results Your Way to World Domination

[ISU Figure Skating @ISU_Figure]

A night of pure SHOWTIME ✨⛸️
Olympic moments, pressure, and movement on the podium: unforgettable.

🥇 Alysa Liu 🇺🇸
🥈 Kaori Sakamoto 🇯🇵
🥉 Ami Nakai 🇯🇵

#ISUShowtime #FigureSkating #Olympics #MilanoCortina2026

[saf @pbxaf535]

From retiring at 16 to becoming a 2 times Olympics gold medalists 4 years later.

Alysa Lui the comeback of a lifetime.

[Priscilla Gilman @priscillagilman]

This incredible human, athlete, & artist just won 🥇with ebullience, radiance, & humble reverence for the sheer happiness skating brings her. Alysa Liu, you are stardust, you are golden, and you brought us back to the meaning, beauty, & transcendent JOY of figure skating!
#MilanoCortinaOlympics2026

[Eurosport France @Eurosport_FR]

𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝒃𝒐𝒏𝒉𝒆𝒖𝒓 𝒅𝒆 𝒗𝒐𝒊𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝑨𝒍𝒚𝒔𝒂 𝑳𝒊𝒖 : 🥇 amplement méritée pour l'Américaine ! #MilanoCortina2026

[Flutzifer 👹 @twizzlefloopz]

if there's anything this podium has taught us is that turns out coaches do not have to starve and torture their students for them to achieve success

[peter 1 🕸️ ellen @rey_skywalkerrr]

oh i hope this helps shift the culture of this sport. alysa liu went out there and did it for HERSELF because it made her HAPPY and she did it HER WAY without feeling like her LIFE WAS ON THE LINE and she WON FUCKING GOLD

[Jordan Patu @Jordan_Patu]

I’ve become fascinated by Alysa Liu’s story from a sports psychology lens. I’m not sure I’ve seen a talented young athlete completely rid themselves of external pressures and attain the level of athletic & artistic freedom she has. This woman is a mental Goliath.