{"id":193894,"date":"2026-02-26T00:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193894\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T00:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:16:21","slug":"following-gold-medal-wins-oakland-to-honor-hometown-hero-alysa-liu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193894\/","title":{"rendered":"Following Gold Medal Wins, Oakland To Honor &#8216;Hometown Hero&#8217; Alysa Liu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND, CA \u2014 Oakland city officials announced Tuesday plans to honor &#8220;hometown hero&#8221; Alysa Liu following her recent gold medal wins at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Alysa represents the heart, grit, resilience, and joy of Oakland,&#8221; city officials said in astatement Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DVKAmVNAdGU\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=644328ed-5fcb-4803-a0e1-d7a04eef56cd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on social media<\/a>. &#8220;Her achievement has filled our city with pride.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Liu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/alysa-liu-dines-alameda-gold-medalist\/4042864\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">returned to the Bay Area<\/a> this week following gold medal wins in the team and solo figure skating competitions. Upon her Bay Area return, Liu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/traboccokitchenandcocktails\/posts\/pfbid033EopAd49uwZxi5qDHzvxsEfaQxadZmAW6a65FoAbeAvSXF2oJmX88T6oK4YRsgPml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visited Trabocco in Alameda<\/a>, where she was gifted a congratulations cake by the staff. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What an incredible honor to have Oakland\u2019s hero,&#8221; the restaurant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/traboccokitchenandcocktails\/posts\/pfbid033EopAd49uwZxi5qDHzvxsEfaQxadZmAW6a65FoAbeAvSXF2oJmX88T6oK4YRsgPml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted online<\/a> Tuesday, including photos posing with Liu. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear exactly when Oakland will put on the community-wide celebration. City officials are coordinating with Liu&#8217;s team to determine a date for the celebration. <\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Bay Area native won the hearts of her country and the internet following her winning performance on Thursday, where she skated to Donna Summer&#8217;s &#8220;MacArthur Park.&#8221; She was unapologetically herself throughout the Olympics and took many opportunities to shoutout Oakland. <\/p>\n<p>Being able to do it my way on the big stage like this has been my dream, and I got to do it,&#8221; Liu told NC News following her win. &#8220;I&#8217;m just like over the moon. I&#8217;m the luckiest girl ever,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, CA \u2014 Oakland city officials announced Tuesday plans to honor &#8220;hometown hero&#8221; Alysa Liu following her recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-193894","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\/193894","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=193894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}