Photo By Jeff Swinger, USA TODAYKerri Walsh, 30, of Hermosa Beach, California, and Misty May-Treanor, 31, of Long Beach, California just raised the bar in beach volleyball. These ladies are doing what no one has ever done before.
It's not just the two gold medals that set them apart. It's the 108 consecutive match victories. Including the Olympics, they have won 19 consecutive tournaments. They played 28 sets in two Olympiads — and won 28 sets.
"I don't think I will ever see something like this in my lifetime," Kiraly said after Walsh and May-Treanor made history Thursday by becoming the first beach volleyball team, male or female, to repeat as Olympic champions.
"I absolutely broke down and cried like a baby when they won," said Kiraly, who won indoor gold medals in 1984 and 1988 and beach volleyball's first Olympic gold medal in 1996.
"When Misty ran over and hugged her dad (Butch May, a 1968 U.S. indoor volleyball Olympian) and spread some of the ashes of her mother (Barbara, who died of cancer in 2002) on the court, it just really rocked me.
