Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes of Team USA celebrate after defeating Team Czechia during the Women’s Preliminary Phase – Pool C match at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 28, 2024.
Team USA's women's beach volleyball duo Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng defeated the Czech Republic's Barbora Hermanovva and Marie-Sara Stochlova in their first match of the Paris Olympics.
Hughes and Cheng, who won the Beach Volleyball World Championships in 2023, won the match 2-0 with a total of 42 points versus their opponent's 27 total points.
However, the Czechs did not go out with a fight, with the match coming to an end with a wild match point.
The win puts them tied with Germany atop women's beach volleyball pool C with one win each.
Next, the Americans will take on France on July 31 at 9 a.m. EST before completing the preliminary round with a match with Germany on Aug. 2.
Since beach volleyball became on Olympic sport in 1996, the women's team has won gold four times (three of them with Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Lee Walsh Jennings), including in Tokyo, when April Ross and Alix Klineman took gold.
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The men's beach volleyball team has won gold three times as well.
