Ross, a three-time Olympian, now has a complete medal set having won bronze at the 2016 Rio Games and silver in 2012 in London.
After the match, Ross paid tribute to Klineman, who switched to beach volleyball in part because she didn’t make the indoor team for Rio.
That’s it! An Australia serve hits the net and the USA are champions! What a way to lose. April Ross finally wins gold after silver in London and bronze in Rio! #Olympics pic.twitter.com/USp2AB5Io1
— Oliver Moody (@olimoody) August 6, 2021
“I’m just really proud of how hard we have worked over the years, and how Alix dove so hard into beach volleyball and studied the game and worked her butt off, and so she deserves this,” she told ESPN.
Nicknamed the “A-Team” due to their initials, Ross and Klineman were cheered on by Mr. T, the actor famous for his role as the gold-chain wearing strongman B. A. Baracus in the 1980s television series that shares a name.
The gold topped off an almost perfect Olympic tournament for the pair, who dropped just one set over the course of seven dominant performances.
April Ross and Alix Klineman are the new women’s #BeachVolleyball Olympic champions!@BeachVBWorld @TeamUSA pic.twitter.com/ScZgiB13E9
— Olympics (@Olympics) August 6, 2021
Other gold medals
Poland’s Dawid Tomala dominated the 50-kilometer race walk at the Tokyo Games to take an astonishing gold unchallenged in only his second attempt at the longest distance. Tomala took the lead by the 30-kilometer mark to triumph in 3:50:08 and held a Polish flag for the final kilometer.
Germany update
29 years after current national team coach Ronald Weigel’s bronze coup at the Olympics in Barcelona, Jonathan Hilbert wrote his own chapter in the history of German walkers by taking silver in the final 50 kilometer race walk. The event is being dropped for the Paris 2024 Games in favor of a new mixed-gender event.
Other news from Tokyo 2020
Two Belarusian coaches who were involved in the effort to force sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya to return to Minsk have been stripped of their Games accreditation and sent home by the International Olympic Committee.
COVID-19 cases continue to rise ahead of the closing weekend the Organizing Committee announced on Friday. In its daily information brief, it was confirmed that 29 people have tested positive for the virus, two less than Day 13 which set a new high since the start of the Games. In total 382 people in connection with the Olympic Games have been infected.
jt (AFP, AP, dpa, Reuters)
Source: DW
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