{"id":206044,"date":"2026-03-05T19:30:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206044\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:30:27","slug":"oakland-will-celebrate-olympic-gold-medalist-alysa-liu-on-march-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206044\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland will celebrate Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu on March 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandside.org\/2026\/02\/19\/alysa-liu-winter-olympics-gold-figure-skating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">winning the first Olympic women\u2019s figure skating individual gold medal in 24 years<\/a>, hometown hero Alysa Liu said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7060355\/2026\/02\/20\/alysa-liu-olympics-figure-skating-milan-expectations-oakland-background\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201cI was glad that I could bring Oakland to Milan.\u201d\u00a0<\/a>On March 12, Oakland will return the favor and bring the darling of the Milano Cortina games\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandside.org\/2026\/02\/02\/alysa-liu-oakland-ice-center-figure-skating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">back to where it all began<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a whirlwind since the Olympics for the superstar skater, including a visit to the Today show on Monday when she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/see-alysa-liu-and-daniel-radcliffe-meet-in-today-s-greenroom-258596933726\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">snapped a selfie with Daniel Radcliffe<\/a>, and \u00a0a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/alysa-liu-jimmy-fallon\/4046540\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">surprise appearance on The Tonight Show<\/a>\u00a0with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday, when she gifted the host with a wig of her iconic hairstyle.<\/p>\n<p>Back home in Oakland, Liu\u2019s father, Arthur Liu, was a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/oakland-chinatown-lunar-new-year-parade-21940192.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">guest of honor at the Lunar New Year parade<\/a>\u00a0last Saturday, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandside.org\/2026\/03\/02\/major-mural-of-oakland-olympic-champ-alysa-liu-goes-up-in-temescal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a mural has already been erected\u00a0<\/a>of Liu\u2019s Olympic triumph in the Temescal neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>The celebration continues. Today, Mayor Barbara Lee announced the details of a special Celebration Rally with Alysa Liu that will take place on Thursday, March 12 at 12pm at Oakland City Hall, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland. This is a free event, but space is limited, so\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitoakland.com\/alysa-liu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reserve your spot by registering at Visit Oakland\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gform_required_legend\">&#8220;*&#8221; indicates required fields<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandside.org\/author\/estheroaklandside-org\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cropped-20250702-222245-80x80.webp.webp\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Esther Kaplan was most recently the investigations editor at Business Insider. Before that, she was executive editor at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, where she oversaw a reporting team that led investigations for a national podcast, and editor-in-chief at the New York City nonprofit Type Investigations. She launched the Ida B. Wells Fellowship, a program dedicated to diversifying the field of investigative reporting.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/oaklandside.org\/author\/estheroaklandside-org\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Esther Kaplan\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After\u00a0winning the first Olympic women\u2019s figure skating individual gold medal in 24 years, hometown hero Alysa Liu said\u00a0\u201cI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-206044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206044","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=206044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}