{"id":132,"date":"2017-07-18T00:14:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T00:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/in-pictures-olympic-athletes-travel-to-long-beach-for-the-world-series-of-beach-volleyball\/"},"modified":"2017-07-18T00:14:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T00:14:39","slug":"in-pictures-olympic-athletes-travel-to-long-beach-for-the-world-series-of-beach-volleyball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/in-pictures-olympic-athletes-travel-to-long-beach-for-the-world-series-of-beach-volleyball","title":{"rendered":"IN PICTURES: Olympic Athletes Travel to Long Beach for the World Series of Beach Volleyball"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-55091\" style=\"vertical-align: top;\" src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/beach4.jpg\" alt=\"beach4\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos by Jose Romero III.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week, Long Beach hosted the World Series of Beach Volleyball (WSOBV), with fierce competition, Olympic athletes and die hard fans occupying Alamitos Beach for a four-day tournament-style event.<\/p>\n<p>From Thursday, July 13th to Sunday, July 16th, athletes went head to head on the court while youth amatuer competitions and musical celebrations took place throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p>In the FIVB (International Federation of Volleyball) Long Beach President\u2019s Volleyball Cup, international players faced off in Olympic-grade matches After three days of competition, Brazil\u2019s Larissa Franca and Talita Antunes clinched first place in the women\u2019s competition followed by American duo April Ross and Laura Fendrick in second.<\/p>\n<p>Three-time gold medalist, California native and former partner of Misty May-Treanor, Kerri Walsh-Jennings, however, left many fans upset as her team failed to even make it pass pool play into the Quarterfinal. In the men\u2019s competition, America\u2019s Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena came out on top, defeating Canada\u2019s Sam Pedlow and Sam Schachter on the final day of competition.<\/p>\n<p>While the international tournament barreled on, athletes competing in the Ametuer Athletic Union\u2019s Junior National Beach Volleyball Championships and a National Volleyball League tournament competed to win titles in their respected competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The event also featured activities for aspiring athletes and fans, hosting a Kid\u2019s Day for youth to learn about the sport on Thursday and an entire day of live music presented by Otter Pop on Saturday. To add to the excitement, WSOVB partnered with six-time Grammy nominee Kaskade to throw an outdoor music event on Saturday to coincide with the tournaments.<\/p>\n<p> <center> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Respect?src=hash\">#Respect<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LongBeachCity\">@LongBeachCity<\/a>, Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertGarciaLB\">@RobertGarciaLB<\/a> + the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lbfd\">@LBFD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LBPD\">@LBPD<\/a> for hosting <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SunSoaked?src=hash\">#SunSoaked<\/a>. THANK YOU for welcoming us! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BLbPSQEBJn\">pic.twitter.com\/BLbPSQEBJn<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Kaskade (@kaskade) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaskade\/status\/887077405520801793\">July 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\"><\/script> <\/center> <\/p>\n<p>{gallery}stephanie\/beachvolleyball17{\/gallery}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Long Beach hosted the World Series of Beach Volleyball (WSOBV), with fierce competition, Olympic athletes and die hard fans occupying Alamitos Beach for a four-day tournament-style event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":16479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[61],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-beach-volleyball","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}