'American beach volleyball had hit the refresh button, but with a most worthy soul as its new hero,' writes cbrennansports.
With a new partner in Alix Klineman, April Ross has Olympic gold is in her sights. “But at the same time, it’s about the journey," Ross says.TOKYO — The U.S. rise back to the top of women’s beach volleyball took 44 minutes or nine years, depending on how you’re counting.
The Americans won their fourth gold medal in five Olympics dating to the 2004 Athens Olympics, but their first since 2012 in London. And, for the first time ever, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings were not the ones standing on the top of the medal stand.“It means a lot to uphold that tradition,” the 39-year-old Ross said afterward, having finally added a gold medal to her silver in 2012 and bronze in 2016 to complete the set.
“I can’t fathom that it worked out the way it did,” Ross said. “It’s kind of a fairytale story. Like, oh, I’m going at 39 to try and get my gold medal and the fact that it actually happened feels so special and surreal.” Beach volleyball was one of the original edgy sports brought into the Olympic fold at the 1996 Atlanta Games by the old guard at the International Olympic Committee to try to juice up new interest in a tradition-bound TV property.
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