The westward journey away from war and toward the 2022 World Cup began early on a Saturday morning in Kyiv. It had been two months since the bombs started falling and the sirens started wailing; since windows shattered and some Ukrainian soccer players sheltered on garage floors. They feared the Russian missiles that seemed to strike incessantly. They huddled in basements, under blankets. They pleaded for peace, then fled for safety, their minds as far as could be from the sport that once… Source link
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The most decorated beach volleyball player of all time will not be part of this summer’s Tokyo Olympics. An upset loss at a tournament in the Czech Republic on Wednesday doomed Kerri Walsh Jennings’ bid to reach her sixth Olympics at age 42. Walsh Jennings and partner Brooke Sweat needed to finish third or better at the J&T Banka Ostrava Beach Open to keep hope alive of qualifying for Tokyo. They instead failed to even make it into the main draw, falling to unheralded Raisa Schoon and… Source link
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