KERRI WALSH JENNINGS

Historically, U.S. women have been incredibly dominant in beach volleyball at the Olympics. April Ross and Alix Klineman handily beat a duo from Australia to win gold in Tokyo.

Ross, who won a silver medal in 2012 and bronze in 2016, is the first beach volleyball player to win an Olympic medal with three different partners.

Caeleb Dressel and Emma McKeon earned milestone medals at the Olympic pool before the race to determine the fastest man in the world took center stage.

The American team of Sarah Sponcil and Kelly Claes were ousted from the Olympic beach volleyball tournament by Canada.

Belarus track sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya says her Olympic team officials tried to remove her from Japan in a dispute that led to a standoff Sunday evening at Haneda Airport in Tokyo.

Kelly Claes, 25, and Sarah Sponcil, 24 -- the youngest U.S. beach volleyball pair ever -- dominated the Kenyan duo Gaudencia Makokha and Brackcides Khadambi in their second preliminary victory, 21-8, 21-6.

Laurie Hernandez, Kerri Walsh Jennings and Emma Weyant joined On Her Turf to discuss how they each have been experiencing the Tokyo Games.

Beach Volleyball is one of the most popular events at the summer Olympics, and part of that reason is because of Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh-Jennings.

Even though Alexa Fernandez walked into the gym as a freshman in the fall to join a senior-laden <a href="https://www.vype.com/c/lutheran-south-academy" target="_blank">Lutheran South Academy</a> volleyball squad, it didn't faze her.

April Ross was 24 years old when she first started playing beach volleyball, the sport that would eventually send her to four Olympics. At that age, Sarah Sponcil is already headed to the Summer Games. Sponcil and her 25-year-old partner, Kelly Claes, are the first generation to come up through an NCAA beach volleyball program that didn’t exist until 2012 — long after Ross graduated from Southern California.

Look back at some of the top moments of Kerri Walsh Jennings' storied Olympic career.

Three-time beach volleyball gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings was defeated in her bid to reach the Olympics for a sixth time when she and partner Brooke Sweat lost in a qualifying match in Ostrava, Czech Republic.