{"id":77171,"date":"2026-05-01T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77171"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:36:41","slug":"alysa-lius-olympic-skating-routine-is-now-in-fortnite-as-an-emote-and-its-very-impressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77171","title":{"rendered":"Alysa Liu&#8217;s Olympic Skating Routine Is Now In Fortnite As An Emote, And It&#8217;s Very Impressive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alysa Liu stole the show at the Winter Olympics this year, becoming the first US women&#8217;s skating gold medalist in more than 20 years. After the Olympics, Liu said she wanted her own Fortnite skin, and while that hasn&#8217;t happened yet, Fortnite is adding a new emote based on her performance at the Olympics Exhibition Gala.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortnite.com\/item-shop\/emotes\/stateside-330b5a5f\">The Stateside emote<\/a>, as it&#8217;s called, is available now for 500 V-Bucks. As you can see in the video below, it&#8217;s an impressively faithful recreation of Liu&#8217;s performance<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"tweet\" data-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShiinaBR\/status\/2050004723592245724\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Stateside Fortnite emote is based on Alysa Liu&#8217;s performance at the Winter Olympics Exhibition Gala <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YRTdzZEs75\">pic.twitter.com\/YRTdzZEs75<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Shiina (@ShiinaBR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShiinaBR\/status\/2050004723592245724?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/olympic-gold-medalist-alysa-liu-wants-a-fortnite-skin-of-her-own\/1100-6538341\/\">Liu told USA Today<\/a> that she would love for Epic to create a Fortnite skin based on her. &#8220;I would buy it!&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Liu is not the first celebrity to ask for a Fortnite skin, as Madison Beer asked Epic for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/madison-beer-issues-a-plea-stop-changing-fortnite-so-much-and-please-give-me-a-skin\/1100-6538180\/\">a Fortnite skin based on herself<\/a>. Before this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/chappell-roans-idea-of-a-fun-night-involves-eating-an-edible-and-playing-video-games\/1100-6528934\/\">Chappell Roan asked for a Fortnite skin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/take-a-look-at-these-two-chappell-roan-fortnite-skins-coming-this-week\/1100-6537895\/\">later got one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t the first time a popular video game adopted an Olympics routine for in-game content, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/black-ops-6-season-1-battle-pass-includes-emote-referencing-viral-raygun-olympics-dance\/1100-6527795\/\">Australian breakdancer RayGun&#8217;s performance in 2024<\/a> later came to Black Ops 6 as an emote.<\/p>\n<p>In other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alysa Liu stole the show at the Winter Olympics this year, becoming the first US women&#8217;s skating gold medalist in more than 20 years. After the Olympics, Liu said she wanted her own Fortnite skin, and while that hasn&#8217;t happened yet, Fortnite is adding a new emote based on her performance at the Olympics Exhibition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":77173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77174,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77171\/revisions\/77174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}