{"id":217719,"date":"2026-03-13T06:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T06:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217719\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T06:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T06:19:21","slug":"2026-winter-olympic-gold-medalist-alysa-liu-honored-at-oakland-rally-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217719\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Winter Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu honored at Oakland rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8212; Thousands 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 class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">MORE: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/milan-cortina-2026-oaklands-olympic-gold-medalist-alysa-liu-inspires-young-athletes-local-ice-rink\/18627109\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland&#8217;s 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 \">The city says Liu&#8217;s talent championed Oakland on the worldwide stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;Alysa Liu, she represented The Town!&#8221; City Councilmember Ken Houston said. &#8220;When she skated, she showed style, she showed finesse, she showed Oakland style. And when she bit the coin, she let &#8217;em know that Oakland is in the house. So we are so proud of her.&#8221;<\/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&#8217;s been <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/olympic-figure-skating-champ-alysa-liu-is-back-bay-area-heres-where-she-visited-what-oakland-has-planned\/18651674\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spotted all around the Bay Area<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. &#8212; Thousands gathered outside Oakland City Hall to celebrate the hometown hero Alysa Liu after she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[99755,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-217719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-99755","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217719","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=217719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}