Beach Volleyball & Riptides: Sports Widow Report
August 20, 2008 5:30 AM | 0 Comments
Last night we watched Women's Beach Volleyball on The Beijing Olympics. The first thing I noticed was that a couple of the women had the letters BRA on their chests. I thought: This is ridiculous; are they labeling their clothing or something? Do the bottoms have the letters UNDERPANTS written across them? But the fact was that one of the teams was Brazil.
In an interview on the Sports Widow Radio show, we talk to a woman, Noreen, who was a Beach Volleyball Widow. When she first learned that her boyfriend, and eventual husband, played 2-man beach volleyball, she thought he just couldn't assemble enough players for a full team.
It's ironic that I am at Virginia Beach with my brother's family at their condo, watching beach volleyball, because when I was in 6th Grade, I nearly drown from a rip tide and the whole event went unnoticed because my father and brothers were so busy watching cute, young gals playing volleyball at Laguna Beach, CA.
I kid you not. One instant I was cavorting in the waves like a dolphin; and the next I was dragged so far from shore that people on the beach were mere specks. Not being a strong swimmer, I prayed fervently and was miraculously dragged back into shore by another current. This one dragged me across the ocean floor, leaving tiny cuts from the sand all over my body. My father and brothers were so busy noting the volleyball players techniques and no doubt pondering the miracles of swimsuit construction that they didn't even notice I was gone.
The Sports Widow (reporting safely from Virginia Beach)
(aka Nan Hall)
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