PARIS -- Sweden's David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig beat Germany's Nils Ehlers and Clemens Wickler in straight sets to win the Olympic gold medal in men's beach volleyball in a quick final at the impromptu arena at the base of the Eiffel Tower on Saturday.
PARIS -- Brazil's Ana Patricia Ramos and Duda Lisboa beat Canada's Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson 2-1 to win the Olympic women's beach volleyball gold at the iconic venue in front of the Eiffel Tower on Friday.
Canada secured its best-ever finish in Olympic volleyball on Thursday when Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson advanced to the gold-medal match in women's beach volleyball at the Paris Games.
There will be no medals for the United States in beach volleyball for the first time since it became an Olympic sport in 1996. Miles Partain and Andy Benesh were the last Americans alive and they lost 21-14, 21-16 to Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan of Qatar in Wednesday's quarterfinals at Paris below the Eiffel Tower.
In an Olympic rarity, no U.S. women's beach volleyball team will win a medal this year. The last remaining U.S. duo, reigning world champs Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng, lost their quarterfinal match on Tuesday in Paris 2-0 (21-18, 21-19) to Switzerland's Nina Brunner and Tanja Huberli.
Miles Partain and Andrew Benesh kept the United States alive for the men's beach volleyball gold medal when they defeated Italians Samuele Cottafava and Paolo Nicolai 2-0 on Monday in the Round of 16 in Paris.
The American beach volleyball duo of Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes is moving on at the Paris Games.
In the midst of the Paris Olympics, U.S. beach volleyball teammates Andy Benesh and Miles Partain elected to part ways with their coach, Mike Placek. The split occurred at some point between the pair's 2-0 defeat of Morocco in preliminary Pool D play on Tuesday and Thursday's 2-1 win over Brazil.
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Yardbarker's Chelena Goldman says there are a few things you should about the Olympic women's beach volleyball field before you go out and back Team USA with your bets.
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The International Volleyball Federation has announced that women volleyball players will be allowed to wear shorts and tops with sleeves at the London Olympics.
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