Olympian Alysa Liu, who just won two gold medals at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics, has made a lot of headlines during the Olympics. And a lot of those have had to do with her improbable comeback, two years after retiring from the sport for good. Her return, complete with funky hair, piercings, and total control over her song selection, has turned Liu into not just a champion, but a star.
Now, Liu is being commemorated by an artist from our communities for her showing on the ice. Mexican-American artist Gustavo Zermeño Jr. created a mural of Liu in Los Angeles, on a wall on Crenshaw Boulevard. Zermeño Jr. is a painter from Venice, Los Angeles, known for large, outdoor murals depicting SoCal sports and music icons like the Dodgers or Becky G. He’s also done murals for icons like Bad Bunny.