Beach Volleyball

Team USA's Cheng and Hughes dominate in 1st women's beach volleyball match

Next, the reigning world champions take on France in their second match of the preliminary round.

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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.

The men's beach volleyball team has won gold three times as well.

Watch the third episode of My New Favorite Olympian, where you'll meet some of Team USA's most inspiring stars.
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