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Olympian Alysa Liu explains why she started to hate figure skating when she was 14 years-old: "I thought that was where all my issues stemmed from," she tells Rolling Stone. "I didn’t even know what I was doing it for anymore."

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00:00How much of a say do you feel you had when you were a kid in terms of skating?
00:07At 14, I hated skating. I started to hate it because I thought that that's where all my issues stemmed
00:12from.
00:12And so, like, at 16, I quit. Yeah, and then I didn't skate.
00:18When you say all your issues, what are you referring to?
00:20I don't know. Well, like, I was, like, kind of lonely. I didn't see my friends well, so it was
00:25COVID.
00:26So we were all away, and I was training elsewhere. And, yeah, a lot. A lot. What do you mean
00:33a lot?
00:34I don't know, because, like, you're 14, you're not going to school, you're not seeing your friends, you're training, like,
00:40working so hard for what, and, like, I didn't even know what I was doing it for anymore.
00:44It was all really difficult. And, like, I was living alone, too, for a long time, from, like, 14 to
00:4916. So, yeah, it's not ideal.
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