Beach Volleyball at the Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024

[Josh 11,497]

See, I told you. This team is so overrated. Yeugh. 

[Josh 11,497]

 Mel/Brandie with a big upset win over  Kloth/Nuss in the round of 16 

Edited August 5, 2024 by Josh

[Belle 1,017]

6 minutes ago, Josh said:

 Mel/Brandie with a big upset win over  Kloth/Nuss in the round of 16 

Congratulations. 

[Josh 11,497]

11 minutes ago, Belle said:

Congratulations. 

Thank you! 
 

This is BY FAR (sorry Kharun, our women’s 3x3 team, and Warner) my biggest wish for a Canadian medal at this Olympics, and now they are so close. We have yet to win an Olympic medal in this sport, even though we’ve had medal contending winning pairings in both Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, and both times they exited in the quarterfinals. Outside of the Olympics I try to watch all of their matches on the Beach Pro Tour, and Melissa’s sideout has been so poor against some of the top teams that my hopes for them entering the tournament weren’t that high even as #4 in the world. But she was solid today, and it also helped that Kloth was more error-prone than usual. 
 

Taking it game by game, we’ll see what happens against Alvarez/Moreno in the quarterfinals…

[Josh 11,497]

 Cherif/Ahmed back into the quarterfinals of the Olympics 

[Josh 11,497]

Men’s Quarterfinals

 Ehlers/Wickler v.  Boermans/de Groot

 Herrera/Gavira v.  Mol/Sørum

 Evandro/Arthur v.  Åhman/Hellvig

 Cherif/Ahmed v.  Partain/Benesh

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Women’s Quarterfinals

 Clancy/Mariafe v.  Verge-Depre/Bobner

 Duda/Ana Patricia v.  Samoilova/Graudina

 Hughes/Cheng v.  Hüberli/Brunner

 Alvarez/Moreno v.  Melissa/Brandie

[Josh 11,497]

 Hüberli/Brunner are through to the semifinals 

 

Cheng is out! 

[Josh 11,497]

First half of the men’s and women’s semifinals are set.  
 

Women’s Semifinals

 Clancy/Mariafe v. TBD

 Hüberli/Brunner v. TBD

 

Men’s Semifinals

 Ehlers/Wickler v. TBD

 Åhman/Hellvig v. TBD

[Skater Boy 15]

Wow who would thnk two swiss in the quarters and one american team only. Surprised the Canadians won as they have not looked good at all and in straight sets.  Thoughts - Canada make the semi finals?   Are the top Americans beatable.  I see a medal for the Swiss.