Mark your calendars.<\/p>\n
On March 12, Oakland will host a public celebration for hometown hero and Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu.<\/p>\n
A celebration rally, which is free and open to the public, will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. at Frank Ogawa Plaza outside Oakland City Hall. A pre-rally news conference will be held at 11 a.m. inside City Hall.<\/p>\n
“Alysa Liu is Oakland – her drive, her brilliance, her joy,” Mayor Barbara Lee said in a statement Thursday. “Watching her claim gold for our city and our country filled every Oaklander with pride, and we are overjoyed to welcome her home. This rally is a celebration not just of an extraordinary champion, but of everything our community represents: grit, excellence, and the belief that Oakland always punches above its weight. Come out and celebrate one of our own.”<\/p>\n
Liu captured two gold medals at the recent Milan Cortina Olympics \u2013 one in the women’s singles figure skating event and the other in the mixed team figure skating event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark your calendars. On March 12, Oakland will host a public celebration for hometown hero and Olympic gold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[14389,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-206073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206073","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=206073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}