{"id":7683,"date":"2026-02-25T23:24:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/?p=7683"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:24:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:24:56","slug":"im-honored-to-have-been-even-a-small-part-of-that-%f0%9f%8e%b6%e2%9c%a8-after-alysa-liu-captured-olympic-gold-at-the-milano-cortina-2026-winter-games-with-her-soaring-routi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/?p=7683","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m Honored To Have Been Even a Small Part of That.\u201d \ud83c\udfb6\u2728 After Alysa Liu captured Olympic gold at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games with her soaring routine to \u201cMacArthur Park,\u201d the reaction that stunned fans didn\u2019t come from the rink \u2014 it came from the songwriter himself. Legendary composer Jimmy Webb, who wrote the iconic track made famous by Donna Summer, publicly praised Liu and said he was proud to have played even a \u201csmall role\u201d in her inspiration. But it was the tone of his message \u2014 and the emotion in his voice in a newly surfaced video \u2014 that has viewers talking. In the clip, Webb reflects on how the performance gave his decades-old song new meaning, hinting that Liu\u2019s skate struck something far deeper than nostalgia. From studio to Olympic ice, the moment has come full circle. Watch the video below \ud83d\udc47\ud83d\ude31"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gold medalist Alysa Liu of Team United States poses for a photo during the medal ceremony for the Women\u2019s Single Skating on day thirteen of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Milano Ice Skating Arena on February 19, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Jamie Squire\/Getty Images)<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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American figure skater Alysa Liu won the gold medal Thursday\u00a0skating her long program to Donna Summer\u2019s classic tune \u201cMacArthur Park,\u201d and the song\u2019s writer, Jimmy Webb, couldn\u2019t be happier.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlysa Liu\u2019s energy and youth breathes yet another life into my song \u2018MacArthur Park.\u2019 I am unbelievably proud to play some small role in her inspiration,\u201d he wrote on Instagram next to video of her performance. \u201cI am so impressed with her demeanor, she makes America proud again. Congratulations on your gold medal, Alysa!\u201d<\/p>\n

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The late Donna Summer\u2019s\u00a0official Instagram\u00a0account also acknowledged Liu\u2019s performance, sharing a clip of her skating on its Instagram Story.<\/p>\n

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Released in 1978, Summer\u2019s version of Webb\u2019s song spent three weeks at #1 on the\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u00a0Hot 100 and was certified double Platinum by the RIAA. It appeared on her album\u00a0Live and More<\/em>, with the\u00a0disco hit running over eight minutes long. It earned Summer a Grammy nomination for best female pop vocal performance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gold medalist Alysa Liu of Team United States poses for a photo during the medal ceremony for the Women\u2019s Single Skating on day thirteen of the Milano… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7685,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683\/revisions\/7685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}