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Aug 21st, 2008 |
Category: Olympic Headlines
UPDATED: 21 August 2008
The US has not lost a match, or a set, in 107 straight matches. No one can even fathom that number. It is like trying to understand the Universe. Billions of Stars, Hundreds of Billions of planets in our own Galaxy, hundreds of millions of life years away. And we drive 70 [...]
Tags: Beach volleyball, Beijing 2008, China, Gold medals, Kerri Walsh, Misty May Treanor, Olympics, Tian Jia, Wang Jie
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Aug 17th, 2008 |
Category: Olympic Headlines
The Americans once again show heart in the Olympics when it comes down to a hard fought battle.
Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal fought a brutal battle with Spain’s Pablo Herrera and Raul Mesa, marginally winning the first set at 26-24. Herrera and Mesa were merciless in their fast play and did not give in [...]
Tags: Beach volleyball, Jake Gibb, Olympics, Pablo Herrera, Raul Mesa, Sean Rosenthal, Spain
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Aug 17th, 2008 |
Category: Olympic Headlines, Opinion
In an incredible match between Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers, and Switzerland’s Martin Laciga and Jan Schnider, the Americans had, after splitting the first two sets, come back from a 6 love deficit. The battle was incredible, with each team exchanging leads. This was one of the most exciting matches of the Olympics!!! Suddenly, in [...]
Tags: Beach volleyball, Beijing 2008, Commentary, Jan Schnider, Martin Laciga, Michael Phelps, Olympics, Opinion, Phil Dalhausser, Switzerland, Todd Rogers
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Aug 15th, 2008 |
Category: Olympic Headlines
Going into this match, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh had won 104 straight matches. Staggering. But that was about to be challenged.
May-Treanor/Walsh were to play Belgians Mouha and Van Breedam. The Belgians are big girls. Mouha weighs in at 195 pounds and is 6′4″ tall, and may qualify for an NFL Linebacker position after the [...]
Tags: Beach volleyball, Beijing 2008, Belgium, Gibb, Jake Gibb, Japan, Kerri Walsh, Misty May Treanor, Mouha, Olympics, Rosenthal, Sean Rosenthal, Van Breedam
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Aug 13th, 2008 |
Category: Other Events
Dalhausser/Rogers played Baracetti/Conde of Argentina. The Argentinian team defeated the Latvian team that beat Dalhausser/Rogers in their opening match.
Dalhausser/Rogers opened the lead early, and continued to open it up. Argentina was forced to call a time out after the US Team went up 15-9 following an uncontested spike by Rogers as the Argentinians just stood [...]
Tags: Argentina, Beach volleyball, Beijing 2008, Martin Conde, Olympics, Phil Dauhausser, Todd Rogers
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Aug 12th, 2008 |
Category: Other Events
May-Treanor/Walsh did it again, embarrassing the Norwegian team. The ladies once again won in straight sets 21-12, 21-15, finishing off the final set with an ACE!!
This one wasn’t worth covering, except to say the US Team is undefeated after 104 straight matches!!!! Is that even possible?
American Women’s Beach Volleyball Make 203!! Impossible? Believe It!
It is [...]
Tags: Beach volleyball, Beijing 2008, Cuba, Dalixia Fernandes, Kerri Walsh, Misty May Treanor, Olympics, Tamara Larrea
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Aug 11th, 2008 |
Category: Other Events
The American team, Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers, ranked number 2 and the defending world champions were to face a difficult number 11 Swiss team of Patrick Heuscher and Sascha Heyer. The US had blown their first match in straight sets 19-21 and 18-21 to 23rd ranked Latvian team. There were plenty of excuses as [...]
Tags: Beach volleyball, Beijing 2008, Brink, Deickmann, Gibb, Patrick Heuscher, Phil Dauhausser, Rosenthal, Sascha Heyer, Todd Rogers
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Aug 10th, 2008 |
Category: Other Events
What man doesn’t love women in bikinis!! But here is a chance for everyone in the world to love them. The beach volleyball competition in the Olympics. Japan had to compete against the taller Americans. The Japanese are the specialists in finesse and the Americans the champions in smashes and kills.
It [...]
Tags: Beach volleyball, Japan, Kerri Walsh, Kusuhara, Misty May Treanor, Olympics, Saiki, US, womens
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