{"id":196713,"date":"2026-02-27T17:11:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/196713\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:11:32","slug":"oaklands-golden-girl-billboard-congratulates-alysa-liu-on-historic-olympic-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/196713\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland’s golden girl: Billboard congratulates Alysa Liu on historic Olympic wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The city of Oakland is showing love to its newest Olympic gold medalist.<\/p>\n

A new billboard congratulating figure skating champ Alysa Liu is now up along Highway 880 at High Street in Oakland.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Oakland’s Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu inspires young athletes at her local ice rink<\/a><\/p>\n

Liu won a pair of gold medals last week at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, becoming the first American woman to win Olympic figure skating gold since 2002.<\/p>\n

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She delivered a sensational free skate with a score of 150.20, bringing her total to 226.79 to edge out competitors from Japan and clinch the title.<\/p>\n

RELATED: FROM THE ARCHIVE: Oakland’s Alysa Liu was making history at 13 and had Olympic dreams<\/a><\/p>\n

ABC7 News reporter Lyanne Melendez spoke with Oakland’s own Alysa Liu in 2019 when she was just 13, and thinking about her future Olympic dreams.<\/p>\n

The Oakland mayor’s office says it’s organizing a community-wide celebration for Liu, who got her start training at the Oakland Ice Center.<\/p>\n

A date for the celebration has not been set.<\/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":"The city of Oakland is showing love to its newest Olympic gold medalist. A new billboard congratulating figure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4173,64618,12871,42151,91647,143,145,91648,144,91646,90905],"class_list":{"0":"post-196713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-2026-winter-olympics","9":"tag-alysa-liu","10":"tag-city-of-oakland","11":"tag-figure-skating","12":"tag-gold-medals","13":"tag-oakland","14":"tag-oakland-headlines","15":"tag-oakland-ice-center","16":"tag-oakland-news","17":"tag-olympic-figure-skating","18":"tag-olympic-gold-medalist"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196713","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=196713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}