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Beach Volleyball
Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers are through to the semifinals.

The Americans defeated Germany's Eric Koreng and David Klemperer 21-13, 25-23 in the quarterfinals of the men's Olympic beach volleyball tournament Monday. Dalhausser and Rogers advanced to Wednesday's semifinals, where they will face Georgia.

Georgia's Renato Gomes and Jorge Terceiro defeated the Netherlands' Reinder Nummerdor and Richard Schuil 21-19, 21-19. After the victory, Terceiro ran through the crowd, up the stands and cheered in front of the Georgia flag hanging near the top of the stadium.

The 2007 world champions controlled the match early against the Germans. Dalhausser and Rogers jumped out to a 10-4 lead en route to winning the first set 21-13.

Koreng and Klemperer took an early 8-5 lead in the second set before the U.S. rallied to tie the stanza at 8-8. Germany held an 18-15 advantage before the Americans put together a 3-0 run to even the match. The stanza was tied at 23-23 before Dalhausser and Rogers closed it out at 25-23.

The solid quarterfinal victory was a change from the American's round of 16 match, where they had to come back to defeat Switzerland. On Saturday, Dalhausser and Rogers won the first set 21-16 before dropping the second 23-21. They trailed Martin Laciga and Jan Schnider 6-0 in the decisive third set before coming back to win the stanza 15-13.

Later Monday, the No. 2 U.S. men's team of Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal were to take on the defending Olympic champions, Ricardo Santos and Emanuel Rego of Brazil in the evening quarterfinal session.

On Sunday, the women's team of Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh defeated Brazil's Larissa Franca and Ana Paula Connelly to advance to Tuesday's semifinals. The second U.S. team of Elaine Youngs and Nicole Branagh were eliminated from the tournament when they lost to China's Xue Chen and Zhang Xi in the quarterfinals.

Equestrian

The U.S. won the gold medal in team jumping, knocking out Canada, which took silver. Norway won bronze.

The U.S. got clear rounds from their first three riders in the jump-off. One Canadian rider knocked down a fence, and since Canada only had three riders to the Americans’ four, that clinched the U.S. gold.

The U.S. also won team jumping in 2004 in Athens and has two returning combinations on the 2008 team, McLain Ward on Sapphire and Beezie Madden on Authentic.

Ian Millar, riding in his ninth Olympics, forced the jump-off with a clear round on In Style. The team silver is Millar’s first Olympic medal.

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