Yes, the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics’ opening ceremony takes place Friday, but it is also the first opportunity to see Oakland’s Alysa Liu take to the ice.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old is skating a short program as part of a figure skating team event.<\/p>\n
Following her last preparation session, Liu shared how much she loves practicing. In fact, she said she competes so that she can train all the time, and that’s why there’s no pressure going into Friday’s competition.<\/p>\n
Watch NBC Bay Area’s Garvin Thomas report in the video above.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOakland figure skater Alysa Liu finished second in the women’s short program during the team event qualifiers Friday. Garvin Thomas performs.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, the 2026 Milan Cortina Olympics’ opening ceremony takes place Friday, but it is also the first opportunity…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[14389,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-167044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}