{"id":187916,"date":"2026-02-21T21:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187916\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T21:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T21:29:13","slug":"from-the-archive-oaklands-alysa-liu-was-making-history-at-13-and-had-olympic-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187916\/","title":{"rendered":"FROM THE ARCHIVE: Oakland’s Alysa Liu was making history at 13 and had Olympic dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oakland’s own Alysa Liu is a gold medalist!<\/p>\n

The local figure skater wowed the judges at the Winter Games Thursday with a stunning routine – that netted her the country’s first individual gold medal in figure skating since Sarah Hughes in 2002.<\/p>\n

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MORE: Oakland’s Alysa Liu gives US its first women’s figure skating Olympic gold in 24 years<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a remarkable career for the 20-year-old who retired after the 2022 winter Olympics in Beijing after finishing 8th in the short program.<\/p>\n

In 2024, she decided to return to skating and has capped off a comeback with gold medals.<\/p>\n

But for local skaters and those who have been following her career, her triumph is not a surprise.<\/p>\n

ABC7 Eyewitness News reporter Lyanne Melendez spoke with Liu in 2019<\/a> when the newly minted gold medalist was just 13, and thinking about her future Olympic dreams.<\/p>\n

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If you’re on the ABC7 News app, click here to watch live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland’s own Alysa Liu is a gold medalist! The local figure skater wowed the judges at the Winter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64618,80835,88362,143,145,144,88364,88363],"class_list":{"0":"post-187916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-alysa-liu","9":"tag-figure-skater","10":"tag-gold-medalist","11":"tag-oakland","12":"tag-oakland-headlines","13":"tag-oakland-news","14":"tag-remarkable-career","15":"tag-sarah-hughes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187916","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=187916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}