If she were just pretty, I would simply wish her well and wait for her to start her modeling career or some other glamorous second life. But she's one of the best and most graceful spinners ever, and when I watch her, I see something no other skater can do. So I hope she can continue in some way in skating, probably as a pro, and that her competitive career ends with some version of a satisfactory result.
Yes! These are my thoughts too. I don't want to make hopes or have any expectations of her. I feel like in 2009 with Sasha Cohen. Sasha was the reason I started watching figure skating and I wanted too much to see her at a third Olympics (I haven't seen her live at fer first because I wasn't watching figure skating very often at that time so I missed it). She was close. I don't want to expect anything from Alissa, but to be healthy so that I can see her gorgeous spins and spirals (that she "inherited" from Sasha) many times from now on.
For the last years, Alissa and Kiira were my favourite figure skaters. Two beauties who gave me stomach aches every time they competed and many times I closed my eyes when they had to jump. But that is my type of skater, the type of skater who gives me chills. And they gave me a hard time these past years, both being injured and missing a lot of competitions. But I know something about my girls: one is blonde and doubles every time she is insecure (at least one time in the long program) and the other one is brunette and falls everytime she gets scared and thinks too much before jumping. Alissa doesn't do doubles very often, she is stubborn, she wants to do it, it doesn't matter if it hurts or she feels she can' t do it. Kiira is more relaxed: so if I can't do it than I don't, I just double or pop. Sometimes I wish she were more stubborn like Alissa.