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Post by vb2202 on Apr 28, 2016 14:28:00 GMT -5
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Post by paidlive on Apr 28, 2016 18:21:06 GMT -5
Three-time beach volleyball gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings says her surgically repaired right shoulder is holding up as she zeroes in on another Olympic berth.
Walsh Jennings and partner April Ross won last week's FIVB tour stop in Fuzhou, China, a week after finishing third in Xiamen. Ross and Walsh Jennings have reached the podium in every event they have entered so far this year, propelling them into the lead for one of the two spots for American teams at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
"It was a really good test when we were in China," Walsh Jennings said in a telephone interview Wednesday, 100 days before the start of the Rio Games. "It was raining every single day, and the balls were like medicine balls. I'm getting stronger, better."
Walsh Jennings won three straight beach volleyball gold medals with Misty May-Treanor, who retired after the London Games. Ross, who was with Jennifer Kessy when they lost in the 2012 Olympics championship, teamed up with Walsh Jennings in her attempt to make it four golds in a row.
But Walsh Jennings dislocated her shoulder twice last summer. She had surgery on her labrum in September and returned to the beach in January, needing to move up the international standings and also reach the minimum of 12 events by June to qualify for Rio.
Asked if she was at 100 percent, Walsh Jennings said she isn't sure how to answer that question.
"I'm 100 percent of where I am right now," she said.
~AP
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