After the U.S. failed to earn an Olympic medal in beach volleyball for the first time, the Olympians are driven to win the AVP Manhattan Beach Open.
Paris marked new territory in U.S. beach volleyball history. The men and women donning the red, white and blue departed the Olympics with no medals in the sport for the first time since its introduction at the 1996 Atlanta Games. “That was the first time either one of us has been , so for me, it is kind of a weird state,” said Kristen Nuss, who fell to Canada in the round of 16 with her partner Taryn Kloth. “We've had let-down tournaments, but it's never been at the Olympics.
“There were some matches in the Olympics where I felt like we didn't play up to our standard, or played our system as well as we could have,” Budinger said. “This is a good opportunity for us to get back to that.” Evans said that recovery is at the forefront of his mind as one of the older men’s pairs in the tournament — with both athletes in their mid-30s — as they switch from the once-a-day matches in Paris to competing multiple times a day.
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