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Jordan Larson and Micha Hancock are recovering. They’re OK, thankfully, but the two USA women’s silver-medalists were in a car crash before leaving Paris and are pretty banged up.
Karch Kiraly, not sure if he’ll be back as the women’s coach, is going “glamping.”
USA men’s players have just a couple of weeks before they have to report to their European pro teams.
It never stops.
This weekend, all four USA Olympic beach teams will play in the AVP Manhattan Beach Open: Miles Partain and Andy Benesh and Chase Budinger and Miles Evans on the men’s side, and Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes and Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss on the women’s.
And the NCAA women’s season begins in 13 days.
All that and a personal recap of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Hancock, Larson OK after crash
Larson, who just finished her fourth Olympics, and Hancock, who was the official alternate who played in two matches when she replaced Lauren Carlini, posted on Instagram where they displayed some pretty vicious bruises, especially Hancock after the Uber in which they passengers hit a pole.
Larson showed a bad bruise on the outside of her eye, but Hancock’s was far worse. Her eye was discolored and swollen shut in the photo she posted on Instagram apparently from a hospital room.
“Alright guys, here I am. Car wreck after Paris 2024 concluded. My Uber driver hit a pole on the way to the hotel after a night out with the team,” Hancock said in an Instagram story. “Luckily @gov1007 (Larson) was there with me. She took care of me. Things happen fast guys … take care of yourselves. Wear your seatbelts. Definitely walking away from this happy to be alive. Have some injuries but should recover within months.”
Larson posted, she said, so when she returned to her coaching job at Nebraska this week people would know what happened and she wouldn’t have to repeat the story.
“Things definitely could have been worse,” Larson said on Instagram.
Both players are joining the new LOVB pro league. Hancock will play for LOVB Houston and Larson is going to LOVB Omaha.
The others went to NYC
That included Chiaka Ogbogu, Annie Drews, Justine Wong-Orantes, Haleigh Washington, Kathryn Plummer, Lauren Carlini, Avery Skinner, Jordan Thompson, Kelsey Robinson Cook and Dana Rettke.
Setter Jordyn Poulter and men’s players Matt Anderson and Taylor Averill joined the Today show hosts on the coach. Here’s a link if you haven’t seen it….
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