The U.S. men's beach volleyball team of Jacob Gibb and Sean Rosenthal were even less affectionate.
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Elsewhere, the American men's volleyball team was knocked out by Italy in the quarterfinal.
The most pernicious activity so far proven is illicit funding of a staff volleyball team.
In the final tally of physical contact, the women's volleyball team fell short to the U.S. men's team.
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It was a lovely apartment, with parquet floors, a sunken living room and enough sunlight to tan a volleyball team.
The U.S. women's volleyball team will play Brazil for gold on Saturday.
And Stanford University had no record of her ever attending school and playing on the volleyball team, as Te'o had told reporters.
While their female counterparts had to fight for their gold medal Thursday in wet sand and smog-stained rain, the U.S. men's beach volleyball team had sunny weather.
Shatira Wilks, one of Hadiya's cousins, said Hadiya was hanging out with a volleyball team -- a group of girls and one boy -- when she was killed.
Karch Kiraly, the assistant coach of the U.S. women's volleyball team and a three-time Olympic gold medalist in the sport, says that physical contact is a sign of closeness.
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The U.S. men's beach volleyball team defended the honor of their gender by winning gold to match the American women, but the U.S. baseball team was trounced by Cuba in the semifinal.
Unlike on the beach-volleyball court, where a pair of U.S. women has snapped up three of the five gold medals the young Olympic sport has ever awarded, the U.S. women's volleyball team has never won gold.
The prince, a veteran combat helicopter pilot, mingled with the 35-member British team and then sat on a gymnasium floor in a circle of 12 sitting volleyball team members, batting the ball around amid whoops and laughter.
After cheering on his compatriots to a narrow victory over Andorra at the raucous temporary beach-volleyball court on Tuesday, Nikos Kolas, the captain of the men's indoor-volleyball team, said he didn't bring any of his worries with him.
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That was before Xiang in the 110m hurdles, before Meng Guanliang and Yang Wenjun paddled their canoe to victory in the 500m, before gold went to Xing Huina in the 10, 000m, before gold to the ladies volleyball team and before Tang Li and Tian Tian Sun won the doubles tennis.
He recently became a father when his wife, Ye Li, a former Chinese national team volleyball player gave birth to a baby girl in May 2010.
"It might sound ridiculous, but people do pull muscles and strain things by mopping the floor, because it is intense, " says Jay Roper, a leader of the team of volleyball moppers from Sheffield.
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May-Treanor finished 5th with then partner Holly McPeak in beach volleyball, while Walsh Jennings played on the women's indoor team.
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More than 200 competitors took part in the games in Colorado last week and the British team competed in archery, cycling, swimming, track and field and sitting volleyball.
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