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Article: AMERICAN BEACH PARTY\ CALIFORNIA DUO DOMINATES BRAZILIAN PAIR IN FINAL.(Sports)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- August 25, 2004
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Byline: Barry Svrluga Washington Post
ATHENS, Greece -- Put aside the thumping music, the dancing girls, the pleas from the public address announcer for the crowd to produce "the fastest wave in Olympic Games history." The party is on the periphery, but for those women in the sand, this beach volleyball is, somehow, serious stuff.
So when the final ball fell Tuesday night at the Beach Volleyball Center, when Misty May and Kerri Walsh basically whiffed on their celebratory hug, falling instead to the sand, all the jokes about how there are more beers than cheers at the average beach volleyball match vanished for a moment. May and Walsh, two California ...