{"id":206156,"date":"2026-03-05T21:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206156\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T21:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:14:09","slug":"oakland-reveals-plans-for-alysa-liu-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/206156\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland reveals plans for Alysa Liu celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oakland is celebrating its hometown hero.<\/p>\n

Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu<\/a> will be honored March 12 with a rally at Frank Ogawa Plaza, the city announced Thursday. The celebration is free and open to all, but registration (opens in new tab)<\/a> is required to get into the plaza for what is sure to be a packed event celebrating the world\u2019s top figure skater.<\/p>\n

A city spokesperson said the plaza’s capacity is 10,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlysa Liu is Oakland \u2014 her drive, her brilliance, her joy,\u201d Mayor Barbara Lee said. \u201cWatching her claim gold for our city and our country filled every Oaklander with pride, and we are overjoyed to welcome her home.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rally kicks off at noon, though the \u201cdoors\u201d will open at 9 a.m. The event will feature an address by Liu herself, according to organizers.<\/p>\n

Liu\u2019s performance<\/a> at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics won the first U.S. gold medal in women\u2019s singles figure skating in 24 years. She also took home gold in the team event.<\/p>\n

According to Visit Oakland, which is hosting the event with the city, Liu opted not to have a parade and instead asked for \u201ca celebration that shines a light on Oakland\u2019s vibrant community and talented local artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to celebrate Alysa Liu\u2019s incredible accomplishments and proud that she is showing her love for Oakland on a global stage,\u201d Visit Oakland President and CEO Peter Gamez said. \u201cWe\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0wait to welcome visitors to experience the magic of Oakland and join the festivities honoring Alysa\u2019s Olympic gold!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland is celebrating its hometown hero. Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu will be honored March 12 with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144,10012,127,8859],"class_list":["post-206156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-olympics","tag-sports","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206156","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=206156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}