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TOKYO, Japan, July 27, 2021 – Americans Jake
Gibb and Tri Bourne started off on the right
foot in the men’s beach volleyball tournament of
the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games with a 2-0 (21-18,
21-19) victory in Pool C of the competition.
The other American team in the event, the one
formed by Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena show a
1-1 win-loss record in Pool D.
Dalhausser and Lucena began losing to
Netherlands’s Alexander Brouwer and Robert
Meeuwsen 2-0 (21-17, 21-18) before recovering to
claim a 2-1 (24-22, 10-21, 15-13) success
against Brazil’s Alison Cerutti and Alvaro
Morais Filho.
Mexico’s Jose Gaxiola and Josue Rubio lost their
first match of the competition in Pool B,
falling to Russia’s Viacheslav Krasilnikov and
Oleg Stoyanovskiy 2-1 (24-26, 21-15, 18-16) |
