The scoreboard on the Shiokaze Park seaside volleyball venue mentioned: “Problem profitable. Ball out.”That didn’t make any sense.And the Individuals’ survival was driving on it.“The referee simply mentioned, ’Wait, wait, wait. We’re sorting it out,” Canada’s Heather Bansley mentioned on Sunday after successful a twice-reversed problem to oust Sarah Sponcil and Kelly Claes 22-24, 21-18, 15-13.“I feel they’re simply kind of figuring out some kinks,” mentioned Bansley, a two-time Olympian who’s paired with Brandie Wilkerson in Tokyo. “We belief the know-how they’ve. At the least you already know the right reply, and you’re employed from there.”After dropping the primary set and falling behind 10-4 within the second, the Canadians rallied to drive a tiebreaking third set, first to fifteen (should win by two factors). They led 12-11 when Sponcil’s serve went previous them and bounced off the sand.The linesman’s ruling was that the ball was out, however the Individuals challenged the decision, utilizing a system that was used within the Olympics for the primary time in Rio de Janeiro. The close-up, slow-motion replay on the stadium video board confirmed the ball had clearly missed the blue tape that signifies the courtroom boundary.It was out.However someplace within the technique of getting that info to the courtroom, there was a glitch: The video board mentioned the ball was out and the problem was profitable, which isn’t doable. A member of the Canadian delegation sitting within the largely empty enviornment shouted, “It was out!”The gamers complained to the referee, and the stadium announcer defined that the problem can be reviewed once more. The decision was corrected, and as an alternative of a 12-12 tie it was 13-11, with Canada main.Claes mentioned she’s by no means seen that earlier than. (A crew can’t attraction the choice in a problem, however on this case, the issue arose in speaking the choice to the gamers.)“I believed it was in, and I imply, it sucks,” she mentioned, noting that they blew a 10-4 lead within the second set. “It shouldn’t have even come all the way down to that third set. We did such a very good job within the second, after which simply allow them to again in.”Wilkerson, a first-time Olympian, knocked down a cross that received too near the online for a triple set level, and so they received it when she hit it over on the second shot to a wide-open a part of the courtroom.That ended the keep of Claes, 25, and Sponcil, 24 — the youngest American crew ever to qualify for the Olympic seaside volleyball match. They’re each two-time NCAA champions — at UCLA and Southern California, respectively — and the primary Olympians to come back up by a U.S. school seaside volleyball program that began in 2012.They entered the video games because the No. 3 ranked crew on the planet and positively the most well liked, successful the final two occasions of the pandemic-extended qualifying interval to seize the second U.S. spot in Tokyo. Within the course of, they knocked out five-time Olympian Kerri Walsh Jennings.And they might nonetheless be youthful for the 2024 Paris Video games than any of the opposite American seaside volleyball gamers in Tokyo are actually.“Big studying second for us,” Claes mentioned. “It sucks proper now. It’s most likely going to suck for just a few weeks. However most likely wanting again I’ll for certain take a look at that and take that into consideration. However proper now, like, it stinks.”On the boys’s facet of motion on Sunday, Individuals Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena received knocked out of the Olympic seaside volleyball match on Sunday by Cherif Samba and Ahmed Tijan of Qatar.
The scoreboard on the Shiokaze Park seaside volleyball venue mentioned: “Problem profitable. Ball out.”
That didn’t make any sense.
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And the Individuals’ survival was driving on it.
“The referee simply mentioned, ’Wait, wait, wait. We’re sorting it out,” Canada’s Heather Bansley mentioned on Sunday after successful a twice-reversed problem to oust Sarah Sponcil and Kelly Claes 22-24, 21-18, 15-13.
“I feel they’re simply kind of figuring out some kinks,” mentioned Bansley, a two-time Olympian who’s paired with Brandie Wilkerson in Tokyo. “We belief the know-how they’ve. At the least you already know the right reply, and you’re employed from there.”
After dropping the primary set and falling behind 10-4 within the second, the Canadians rallied to drive a tiebreaking third set, first to fifteen (should win by two factors). They led 12-11 when Sponcil’s serve went previous them and bounced off the sand.
The linesman’s ruling was that the ball was out, however the Individuals challenged the decision, utilizing a system that was used in the Olympics for the first time in Rio de Janeiro. The close-up, slow-motion replay on the stadium video board confirmed the ball had clearly missed the blue tape that signifies the courtroom boundary.
It was out.
However someplace within the technique of getting that info to the courtroom, there was a glitch: The video board mentioned the ball was out and the problem was profitable, which isn’t doable. A member of the Canadian delegation sitting within the largely empty enviornment shouted, “It was out!”
The gamers complained to the referee, and the stadium announcer defined that the problem can be reviewed once more. The decision was corrected, and as an alternative of a 12-12 tie it was 13-11, with Canada main.
Claes mentioned she’s by no means seen that earlier than. (A crew can’t attraction the choice in a problem, however on this case, the issue arose in speaking the choice to the gamers.)
“I believed it was in, and I imply, it sucks,” she mentioned, noting that they blew a 10-4 lead within the second set. “It shouldn’t have even come all the way down to that third set. We did such a very good job within the second, after which simply allow them to again in.”
Wilkerson, a first-time Olympian, knocked down a cross that received too near the online for a triple set level, and so they received it when she hit it over on the second shot to a wide-open a part of the courtroom.
That ended the keep of Claes, 25, and Sponcil, 24 — the youngest American crew ever to qualify for the Olympic seaside volleyball match. They’re each two-time NCAA champions — at UCLA and Southern California, respectively — and the first Olympians to come up through a U.S. college beach volleyball program that began in 2012.
They entered the video games because the No. 3 ranked crew on the planet and positively the most well liked, successful the final two occasions of the pandemic-extended qualifying interval to seize the second U.S. spot in Tokyo. Within the course of, they knocked out five-time Olympian Kerri Walsh Jennings.
And they might nonetheless be youthful for the 2024 Paris Video games than any of the opposite American seaside volleyball gamers in Tokyo are actually.
“Big studying second for us,” Claes mentioned. “It sucks proper now. It’s most likely going to suck for just a few weeks. However most likely wanting again I’ll for certain take a look at that and take that into consideration. However proper now, like, it stinks.”
On the boys’s facet of motion on Sunday, Individuals Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena received knocked out of the Olympic seaside volleyball match on Sunday by Cherif Samba and Ahmed Tijan of Qatar.
