{"id":215600,"date":"2026-03-11T23:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/215600\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T23:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T23:38:10","slug":"how-to-watch-oaklands-celebration-of-olympian-alysa-liu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/215600\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch Oakland&#8217;s celebration of Olympian Alysa Liu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; Preparations are underway in Oakland to honor figure skater <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/heres-how-pronounce-alysa-lius-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Alysa Liu<\/a>, who won two gold medals at this year&#8217;s Winter Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">A rally celebrating Liu, 20, who grew up in Oakland, is scheduled for Thursday at noon at Frank Ogawa Plaza. The free event drew immediate interest, with all 7,000 available tickets selling out.<\/p>\n<p> How to watch Alysa Liu celebration  <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The event will be livestreamed here, plus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxlocal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FOX LOCAL<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@KTVUFox2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">KTVU&#8217;s YouTube channel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Our streaming coverage will begin at 10:30 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Who is Alysa Liu? <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">At the Winter Games, she became the first American woman to win an individual gold medal in figure skating since 2002, and the first American to medal in the event since 2006 \u2014 all following a brief retirement from the sport.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee is urging residents who did not secure a reservation to skip the in-person event for safety reasons, citing capacity limits at the plaza.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">&#8220;We have to be very well organized, so I&#8217;m urging and encouraging people to watch it online,&#8221; Lee said, adding that she is grateful for the public&#8217;s support and enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dc0w9zulyvnah3es.jpg\" alt=\"How do you pronounce Alysa Liu's name? \" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/oakland\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/sports\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; Preparations are underway in Oakland to honor figure skater Alysa Liu, who won two gold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,1184,100,143,145,144,127,1181],"class_list":["post-215600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-sports","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215600","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=215600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}