Home-sand advantage: Brazil looms large for US on the beach
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Kerri Walsh Jennings beat the Chinese in Beijing, winning one of her three Olympic beach volleyball gold medals in 2008 in front of a crowd rooting hard for the hometown opponents.