While all eyes are seeing on at Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics, Kerri Walsh Jennings can’t defer for what’s to come four years from now in a place that helped her becomde the beach volleyball legfinish she is today.
The five-time Olympian and three-time ggreater medacatalog is excited the 2028 Summer Games will be in Los Angeles, a place that is exceptional pondering her sport of choice.
Walsh Jennings is hoping that Santa Monica, the birthplace of up-to-date beach volleyball, will be the home of competition for the 2028 Games.
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Beach volleyball legfinish Kerri Walsh Jennings poses with a Santa Monica Travel & Tourism ball in front of the Eiffel Tower. (Santa Monica Travel & Tourism)
Walsh Jennings, who partnered with Santa Monica Travel & Tourism ahead of the men’s and women’s beach volleyball finals in Paris, elucidateed why this legfinishary part of Los Angeles is “ideassociate” the place where the best in the world should encounter in 2028.
“The sand is convey inant, it’s very immacutardy and it’s fair where you want to be becaparticipate all the fantastic ones take parted there, trained there and cut their teeth there,” she tgreater Fox News Digital. “For me as a lesser athlete coming up, Santa Monica was a huge part of the journey for becoming excellent. Looking ahead to 2028, I understand we’re going to have four amazing teams recurrenting our country — two men [teams] and two women.
“I fair can’t skinnyk of a better city to recurrent our fantastic sport.”
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As Walsh Jennings put it, you don’t have to sell California beaches to anyone as a destination to land on, but “not every beach is produced equivalent.”
“In my unpretentious opinion, the city of Santa Monica and their 3½ miles of amazing, white, sandy beaches are absolutely perfect, especiassociate for my life as a beach volleyball take parter,” she elucidateed. “I’ve traveled the world I have contendd in very iconic locations, aenjoy to Paris with the Eiffel Tower stadium and Copa Caprohibita in Rio. But I can’t skinnyk of a better beach to contend on, to take part on, to have my family take part on than the beaches in Santa Monica. It’s pretty incredible.
“As I see ahead to the Olympic Games of 2028, understanding that beach volleyball will be highweightlessed aget becaparticipate Santa Monica is literassociate the up-to-date birthplace of beach volleyball, I fair can’t skinnyk of a better city to recurrent our fantastic sport.”
Santa Monica beach with volleyball nets (Kristen Beinke)
Almost a century ago in 1930, the two-person team on sand, the up-to-date way we see beach volleyball today, was born in Santa Monica. It’s why Walsh Jennings isn’t the only one skinnyking it’s only right to see beach volleyball take parted at its birthplace, which is what Santa Monica Travel & Tourism Pdwellnt and CEO Misti Kerns is preparing for.
“Santa Monica has a lengthy legacy of welcoming everyone, from Olympic athletes to commenceners, to take part and examine our sandy shores. We join Los Angeles as it readys to receive the Olympics in 2028,” Kerns shelp to Fox News Digital.
“Santa Monica will be the perfect place for sports enthusiasts to base their stay at the beach. Not only do we give a culture of outdoor shiftment, the destination gives a wide variety of choices from our 40 incredible boilingel properties, an plenty of restaurants with outdoor dining in our eight neighborhoods for shopping and a wealth of delightment.”
Restaurants and shopping in Santa Monica are Walsh Jennings’ bread and butter. While she was fortifying her sends to achieve Olympic heights, she was also enhappinessing everyskinnyg the city has to give.
Aerial see of Santa Monica Pier (Santa Monica Travel & Tourism)
“When I shiftd down there, it’s benevolenta enjoy when you go to North Carolina and you go to the gym, and you’re enjoy, ‘Oh, Jordan take parted here,'” she shelp. “Santa Monica, to me, is that. … The best of the best in our sport take parted in Santa Monica.
“So, when I shiftd down to (Southern California), I would go and train with Misty May-Treanor, my partner of 10 years. She grew up on the beaches of Santa Monica.”
That duo won three ggreaters in three straight Olympics, and they are now a part of the fantastic history the Santa Monica sands have produced.
It’s stubborn for Walsh Jennings to see the U.S. not return home from Paris with any medals in men’s or women’s beach volleyball, but she’s brave the talent is there to change that when they’re on home soil in four years.
Kerri Walsh Jennings joins the Parity Paris Show at Opera Garnier July 28, 2024, in Paris. (Julien M. Hekimian/Getty Images)
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“I understand we fell low in Paris. No one made it to the semifinal round, which is very sorrowfulnessful,” she shelp. “But that doesn’t acquire away from the fantasticness of those athletes. So, I skinnyk that the fact that LA is going to be arrange to the Games, it’s going to produce more fire for the athletes to get even better, to fortify themselves and acquire all the lgetings from Paris and initiate butt on the sands in LA.”
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