{"id":217265,"date":"2026-03-13T00:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217265\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T00:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T00:19:07","slug":"thousands-celebrate-olympic-gold-medalist-alysa-liu-at-rally-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217265\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands Celebrate Olympic Gold Medalist Alysa Liu at Rally in Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) \u2014\u00a0Thousands gathered outside Oakland City Hall to celebrate the hometown hero Alysa Liu after she won not one but two gold medals for figure skating at the 2026 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Liu is ushering in a new era of figure skating as the first American woman to win Olympic gold in figure skating since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The 20 year old skater was born in Clovis to a Chinese immigrant and single father to five.<\/p>\n<p>She was born with an anonymous egg donor and surrogate mother.<\/p>\n<p>She now lives and trains in the Bay area and is seen as one of her generation\u2019s most accomplished skaters.<\/p>\n<p>The city says Liu\u2019s talent championed Oakland on the worldwide stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Listen to the report by KMJ\u2019s Liz Kern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">MORE:\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/milan-cortina-2026-oaklands-olympic-gold-medalist-alysa-liu-inspires-young-athletes-local-ice-rink\/18627109\/\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland\u2019s Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu inspires young athletes at her local ice rink<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cAlysa Liu, she represented The Town!\u201d City Councilmember Ken Houston said. \u201cWhen she skated, she showed style, she showed finesse, she showed Oakland style. And when she bit the coin, she let \u2019em know that Oakland is in the house. So we are so proud of her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Since arriving back from the Olympics, a billboard congratulating her has popped up and she\u2019s been\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/olympic-figure-skating-champ-alysa-liu-is-back-bay-area-heres-where-she-visited-what-oakland-has-planned\/18651674\/\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spotted all around the Bay Area<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) \u2014\u00a0Thousands gathered outside Oakland City Hall to celebrate the hometown hero Alysa Liu after she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-217265","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\/217265","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=217265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}