\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAlysa Liu, the Olympic gold medalist who stole America\u2019s heart, will be honored during a public celebration in her hometown of Oakland on Thursday.Mayor Barbara Lee, the City of Oakland, and Visit Oakland will host a public Welcome Home Celebration Rally honoring Liu. Liu won two gold medals at the Milan-Cortina Olympics\u2014one in women\u2019s singles figure skating and the other in mixed team figure skating.The celebration will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, outside Oakland City Hall. Registration for the event has reached capacity. A pre-rally press conference is scheduled for 11 to 11:30 a.m. in the City Council Chambers at Oakland City Hall, 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza.Event organizers say Liu will attend.If you would like to view the celebration, check back at 11 a.m. on this article to see a livestream here, or go to KSBW 8\u2019s Facebook page to watch the livestream there.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Alysa Liu, the Olympic gold medalist who stole America\u2019s heart, will be honored during a public celebration in her hometown of Oakland on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Mayor Barbara Lee, the City of Oakland, and Visit Oakland will host a public Welcome Home Celebration Rally honoring Liu. <\/p>\n
Liu won two gold medals at the Milan-Cortina Olympics\u2014one in women\u2019s singles figure skating and the other in mixed team figure skating.<\/p>\n
The celebration will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, outside Oakland City Hall. Registration for the event has reached capacity. <\/p>\n
A pre-rally press conference is scheduled for 11 to 11:30 a.m. in the City Council Chambers at Oakland City Hall, 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza.<\/p>\n
Event organizers say Liu will attend.<\/p>\n
If you would like to view the celebration, check back at 11 a.m. on this article to see a livestream here, or go to KSBW 8\u2019s Facebook page to watch the livestream there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alysa Liu, the Olympic gold medalist who stole America\u2019s heart, will be honored during a public celebration in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64618,12438,1043,99467,19609,54608,99468,9909,143,10000,145,144,1562,224,99466,2429,1557],"class_list":["post-216751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alysa-liu","tag-capacity","tag-event","tag-frank-h-ogawa-plaza","tag-gold-medal","tag-livestream","tag-milan-cortina-olympics-one","tag-noon","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-city-hall","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-organizer","tag-p-m","tag-public-celebration","tag-thursday","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216751","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=216751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}