{"id":185531,"date":"2026-02-20T03:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/185531\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T03:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:05:23","slug":"dozens-in-oakland-watch-alysa-liu-win-gold-medal-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/185531\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens in Oakland watch Alysa Liu win gold medal \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a watch party at Oakland\u2019s Ice Rink Thursday, where dozens watched as Alysa Liu earned a gold medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the watch party, young skaters said they were excited and inspired to skate the same ice Liu does.<\/p>\n<p>Those here who have known, or known of, Liu for years say seeing her succeed on the world&#8217;s biggest stage is both a thrill and a relief.<\/p>\n<p>Liu became the first U.S. female figure skater to win Olympic gold since 2002. In the town, supporters say they never doubted that she&#8217;d win.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Budman has the full report in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a watch party at Oakland\u2019s Ice Rink Thursday, where dozens watched as Alysa Liu earned a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-185531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185531","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=185531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}