Arts & Entertainment Here's How to Watch Oakland's Celebration of Olympic Gold Medalist Alysa Liu Live — With Kehlani! Oakland is having its big rally at noon in Frank Ogawa Plaza to celebrate hometown Olympian Alysa Liu, who trained at the Oakland Ice Center and grew up in nearby Richmond.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Richmond’s Own Alysa Liu Wins Figure Skating Gold, Bay Area Loses Its Mind They caught the guy who allegedly stole Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee’s SUV; Yosemite National Park is totally closed because of extreme winter weather; and Richmond’s Alysa Liu won the Women's Single Skating gold medal.
Bay Area Sports Olympic Skiing Star Eileen Gu Reveals She Was Assaulted and Threatened While at Stanford San Francisco-born Olympian Eileen Gu, now competing in her second Olympic Games at age 22, reveals in a new interview that she has faced harassment and even death threats over her choice to ski for China instead of the US.
Bay Area Sports East Bay's Own Alysa Liu Qualifies For US Olympic Figure Skating Team For the Second Time Clovis-born Alysa Liu, who now hails from Richmond and who went to high school in Oakland, skated in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing at the age of 16. After briefly retiring, she is back and just made Team USA once again at the US Championships on Sunday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Anthropic AI to Pay Authors, Publishers $1.5 Billion in Copyright Settlement Oakland-born figure skater Alysa Liu won’t be performing to the d4vd song she’d chosen for the Milan Olympics; Sinclair and Nexstar will be airing Jimmy Kimmel at their ABC affiliate stations Friday; and Anthropic has settled a lawsuit with authors and publishers alleging copyright infringement.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former Team USA Swimmer to Take on Full CA Coastline in 2026 The Pink Triangle installation is set to return next week for its 30th Pride celebration; residents of Musk's Starbase, Texas, were told they might lose their property rights due to new zoning; and a former Olympic swimmer plans to swim the entire CA coast in 2026.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Steph Curry Leads Team USA to Insane 17-Point Comeback at Olympics The disgraced Taco and Beer Festival just canceled its upcoming San Jose event; 16- and 17-year-olds can vote in school board elections in Oakland and Berkeley; and Steph Curry’s 36-point onslaught sent Team USA to a miracle comeback and the gold medal game.
Bay Area Sports Walnut Creek Native Becomes Youngest American Ever to Win Gold Medal in Wrestling 20-year-old Walnut Creek product Amit Elor just became the youngest American ever — man or woman— to win an Olympic Gold Medal in wrestling, after Tuesday’s gold medal win was her 41st consecutive victory.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Bay Area's Own Eileen Gu Takes Olympic Gold The 63-year-old woman killed by a San Jose garbage truck has been identified, California's COVID test-positivity rate just dipped below pre-Xmas levels, and SF teen Eileen Gu took home Olympic gold in the women's big air ski-jump.
Bay Area Sports 20-Year-Old From SF Will Be First Tongan Woman To Compete In Weightlifting at the Olympics Kuinini "Nini" Manumua, who started lifting weights at age 13 at San Francisco's Lincoln High School, will be representing her family's home country of Tonga in the sport of weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics — the first woman ever to represent Tonga in the sport.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: There Will Be Zero Spectators at the Olympics A 3.6M earthquake struck northern Napa County last night, a Mendocino County wildfire is now threatening homes, and the Prime Minister of Japan announced that there will be no spectators at the Olympics at all.
SF News Michael Phelps Now Dreams Of Silicon Valley Gold What's left to conquer when you already have 28 Olympic medals? How about Silicon Valley? That seems to be the thinking of Michael Phelps, who the Associated Press reports is planning on leveraging
SF News U.S. Olympic Fencing Team Member Returns Home To Find New House Destroyed In Clayton Fire Matthew Porter, the armorer of the U.S. Olympic Fencing Team in Rio, returned home to California this week to find that the new home he and his wife had just purchased in
SF News Two Stanford Swimmers Win Gold Medals At Rio Olympics In Rio on Friday two Bay Area swimmers took home gold medals, including Stanford's own Katie Ledecky, who took home her fourth gold in these Olympic games. 23-year-old Maya Dirado of San Francisco,
SF News Mercury News Apologizes For Offensive Headline About Simone Manuel's Historic Gold Medal "Simone Manuel Wins First Individual Olympic Gold In Swimming For African-American Woman." That's one way to cover history, which the 20-year-old Manuel made in Rio when she took joint first place in the
Arts & Entertainment At Rio Olympics, SF Native Ends 32-Year Fencing Medal Drought With Silver Alexander Massialas, a native son of the Bay Area and also a son of a three-time Olympian, made it all the way to the Olympic finals in the men's individual foil fencing competition.
Arts & Entertainment The 2016 Rio Olympics Opening Ceremony Is Here (Spoilers And Review) The 2016 Rio Olympic Games are now officially underway with the highly anticipated opening ceremony from Maracanã Stadium. But NBC is bogarting the broadcast here in the U.S. and tape-delaying these proceedings
Arts & Entertainment Sorry, America: Steph Curry Bows Out Of 2016 Summer Olympics Golden State Warrior Stephen Curry will not be donning the red, white, and blue of the USA summer Olympic basketball team — at least not this year. In a statement released earlier today, the
SF News SF Spared Olympic Burden; 2024 Bid Goes To Boston Looks like the Olympic committee is taking a red eye. They said they'd fly from the site of the decision, which was in Denver, to the city with the winning bid. That's Boston,
SF News Now There's Officially An Anti-Olympics Campaign; US Olympic Committee To Make Its Decision Thursday Like there already is in Boston, San Francisco now has a coalition of citizens and politicians getting vocal in the press about their opposition to the city's bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Sausage Plant In The Bayview Goes Up In Smoke Headline of the Day: Multilingual Silicon Valley futurist and robotics CEO marries trophy husband actor (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). [NY Mag] You know how that Christmas Day wine heist at the French Laundry sounded pretty
SF News Here's Where The 2024 Summer Olympics Would Happen In SF, If They Happen San Francisco has submitted its bid for the "Games of the XXXIII Olympiad," and the estimated price tag, according to the Chronicle, is $4.5 billion. It's a privately financed plan relying in
SF News Will The Olympics In SF Just Mean More Gentrification And Crackdowns On The Poor? The Nation has added its "hell no" to the idea of San Francisco hosting the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, summing up the wake of an Olympic Games in any city thusly: "Debt. Displacement.
SF News Study Eyes Extended Central Subway To Fisherman's Wharf Construction is well underway on SF's Central Subway from the Caltrain Station all 1.7 miles to Chinatown (expected 2019). But a new city-commissioned study says maybe we should shoot for an extended
SF News SF Officially Puts In Bid For 2024 Olympics Whether it's realistic or financially feasible or not, San Francisco is officially in the running to be the host city for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. The U.S. Olympic Committee will be
