The Bay Area\u2019s golden girl Alysa Liu was honored at Asian Health Service\u2019s Annual Gala in Oakland Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Liu made an incredible comeback at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. After winning gold, she said in August she\u2019s taking a break from competition for a year.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, I kind of like to be 100 in something and because I have so many commitments this year, unforeseen commitments and stuff like that, and I want to explore all of them and I don\u2019t like to split my energy and time because it doesn\u2019t fulfill me as much,” Liu said. “So I\u2019m going to do this stuff now and then go back to my regular skating routine next year.”<\/p>\n
The Asian Health Services is a health center nationally recognized for its advocacy work on behalf of patients for more than 50 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s really important because we are such an underserved community and the fact that there\u2019s resources is so helpful,\u201d Liu said.<\/p>\n
The organization is located in the city\u2019s Chinatown, a community Liu said helped shape her.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Oakland Chinatown community is so important to me. It literally raised me and there\u2019s so many incredible people here,” Liu said. “There\u2019s really good food, there\u2019s really good shops and the community here is really strong. And I love that we help each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Team USA Figure Skating Champion was among three honorees that also included Shannon Lee, the daughter of Bruce Lee, and Hudson Yang, an actor, chef and mental health advocate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bay Area\u2019s golden girl Alysa Liu was honored at Asian Health Service\u2019s Annual Gala in Oakland Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[143,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-493823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-oakland","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493823","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=493823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}