Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist (in beach volleyball) Misty May-Treanor injured her Achilles tendon on Friday when training for the ABC show, “Dancing with the Stars.” The 31-year-old champion will undergo surgery today to repair the injury. She and dance partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy have withdrawn from the competition. Too bad for Treanor, who was doing well […]
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Season seven of ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” debuts this evening at 8pm with the first night of the three-night premiere. This season’s contestants include two Olympians: Misty May-Treanor, who won her season beach volleyball Gold Medal in Beijing, and Maurice Greene (pictured above), a sprinter who won two Gold Medals […]
It was bound to happen sometime, but the Gold Medal beach volleyball duo of Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh finally lost a match, breaking their 112 match winning streak. They fell to Elaine Youngs and Nicole Branagh in the finals of the AVP Crocs Shootout in Mason, Ohio on Sunday, 21-19, 10-21, 25-23. The […]
All of the United States Gold Medalists from the Beijing Olympics are making the rounds of the late night talk shows this week. Last night it was Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh on David Letterman, talking about the Gold Medals, meeting President Bush, and playing in bikinis. Take a look:
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Misty May-Treanor (pictured above), half of the US Gold Medal beach volleyball team, will be part of the next group of “Dancing with the Stars” contestants, ABC announced this morning. She will be joined by 2000 Gold Medalist (in the 100m and 4×100m), Maurice Greene.
Olympians have traditionally done very well on the show. Speed skater, […]
The United States beach volleyball duo of Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers defeated the Brazilian team of Fabio Magalhaes and Marcio Araujo on Friday to win the Olympic Gold Medal. The contest was close for the first two sets, with the Americans winning the first one 23-21 and the Brazilians taking the second set 21-17, […]
The unbeatable team of Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh continued their reign as the world’s best beach volleyball duo, beating the Chinese pair of Wang Jie and Tian Jia in straight sets Wednesday to win the Gold Medal. They are the first pair to win two Gold Medals in Beach Volleyball and the first to […]
Kerri Walsh of the United States and her beach volleyball partner, Misty May-Treanor are off to a good start in defending their 2004 Gold Medal. They won in straight sets against Japan on August 10 and Cuba on August 12.
However, all was not well after the match with Japan when Walsh discovered that her wedding […]
Here are today’s scheduled events:
Archery
Women’s Team Archery - 1/4 Eliminations
Women’s Team Archery - Semifinals
Women’s Team Archery - Bronze medal match
Women’s Team Archery - Gold medal match
Men’s Team Archery - 1/8 Eliminations
Men’s Team Archery - Quarterfinal match 3
Badminton
Women’s Singles Badminton - Round of 16
Women’s Singles Badminton - Round of 32
Women’s Doubles Badminton - […]
The men’s and women’s beach volleyball competition began yesterday with the preliminary rounds. The big upset was the Latvian team of Aleksandrs Samoilous and Martins Plavins, the #23 seed of 24 teams, defeating the Gold Medal favorites, Americans Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers. The Latvians won in two sets, 19-21 and 18-21.
This doesn’t necessarily mean […]
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Written by Sandy Mitchell [email] for b5media.
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