U.S. figure skater Alysa Liu was nearly perfect while her teammates Isabeau Levito and Amber Glenn failed to reach the top of the leaderboard in the women's short program. MILAN (AP) — Ami Nakai and Japanese teammate Kaori Sakamoto upstaged Alysa Liu and the rest of the “Blade Angels” on Tuesday night. Nakai rode her opening triple axel to a career-best 78.71 points in her short program at the Milan Cortina Olympics , while three-time world champion Sakamoto — the reigning Winter Games bronze