Alysa Liu breaks Team USA's 24-year Olympic gold medal drought in women's figure skating

Team USA women's figure skater Alysa Liu won gold in the women's free skate final Thursday, ending a 20-year medal drought for American women in the event and a 24-year drought for gold. 

The last American woman to win a singles figure skating medal at the Olympics was Sasha Cohen at the 2006 Turin Games. And the last American woman to win a gold medal in singles figure skating was Sarah Hughes, who pulled off that accomplishment in 2002 when the Winter Games were held in Salt Lake City.