{"id":218028,"date":"2026-03-13T11:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/218028\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:57:09","slug":"oakland-holds-rally-to-honor-gold-medalist-alysa-liu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/218028\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland holds rally to honor gold medalist Alysa Liu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 12: Olympic medalist Alysa Liu speaks as Mayor Barbara Lee presents a symbolic of the city's key during the 'Welcome home Alysa Liu Rally' at City Hall in Oakland, California, United States on March 12, 2026. Alysa Liu is an American figure skater who won the women's individual gold medal at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina, becoming the first U.S. woman to win the title since 2002. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun\/Anadolu via Getty Images)\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5RREDHXW35HPJMBGC35UFTT5GI.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee presented Gold Medal-winning figure skater Alysa Liu &#8220;with a key to the city and proclamation honoring her achievement.\u201d Anadolu via Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-olympics \">A \u201craucous crowd of several hundred people gathered at Frank Ogawa Plaza\u201d outside Oakland City Hall on Thursday for an event to honor Gold Medal-winning figure skater Alysa Liu. Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee \u201cpresented Liu with a key to the city and proclamation honoring her achievement.\u201d Valkyries Presidents Jess Smith \u201cgave Liu a Valks-themed gift and also a Warriors \u2018Town\u2019 jersey.\u201d Warriors coach Steve Kerr and G Stephen Curry \u201ccongratulated Liu in videos played on an oversize screen.\u201d Gold Medal-winning figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi and Gold Medal-winning boxer Andre Ward both made appearances. The event, which \u201cmorphed into a loud, soulful, 90-minute party in the midday sunshine,\u201d at times \u201cfelt like an unabashed promotional event for the city\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sports\/olympics\/article\/alysa-liu-speaks-overnight-fame-hundreds-cheer-22071629.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sports\/olympics\/article\/alysa-liu-speaks-overnight-fame-hundreds-cheer-22071629.php\">S.F. CHRONICLE, 3\/12<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee presented Gold Medal-winning figure skater Alysa Liu &#8220;with a key to the city and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6522,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-218028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-culture","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218028","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=218028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}