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RIO DE JANEIRO -- April Ross was so excited to finish the preliminary round of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament unbeaten that she took a victory lap around the Copacabana court, slapping hands with fans as she ran.Her partner, Kerri Walsh Jennings, spun around in circles as she jumped in the sand.Its the Olympics. Weve got to celebrate everything, Walsh Jennings said after the Americans beat Switzerland 21-13, 22-24, 15-12 on Wednesday. That was a really hard-fought match. It deserved a victory lap.Walsh Jennings won three Olympic gold medals playing with Misty May-Treanor, sweeping through Athens or Beijing without losing a set. They lost one set in London on their way to a third straight championship -- beating Ross and Jennifer Kessy in the final.Switzerlands Anouk Verge-Depre was well aware of the record.Its only the second set shes lost in the Olympics, she said with a wide smile. Im proud of that.The Swiss survived a scare when Isabelle Forrer needed a medical timeout in the third set when she crashed to the sand on the point that gave the U.S. a 10-9 lead. She stood up, holding her head in both hands before walking over to her bench and lying on the sand while the Swiss staff looked her over.With a few minutes left in the five-minute timeout, the other three players returned to the sand to warm up. Forrer came back out to a huge cheer from the crowd and a hug from Verge-Depre. Forrer then proceeded to deliver the winning hit on the first point.Those are great girls, Walsh Jennings said. Its a hazard of the job. I was just feeling for her.Forrer did not meet with reporters after the match. Verge-Depre said it was a neck problem, and not a possible concussion.I think she felt a little dizzy, Verge-Depre said.The Swiss still have at least one more match to play, but arent sure if they will advance to the round-of-16 or play in the lucky loser round.Not so lucky were American men Casey Patterson and Jake Gibb, who lost to Spain earlier Wednesday and finished 1-2. They are done for the Olympics, finishing last in their pool because of a tiebreaker.The U.S. pair would have advanced if they had scored a handful more points -- about one per set over three matches at the Copacabana venue.The first tiebreaker is point ratio. The Americans gave up 126 points and scored 125. The Austrians scored 145 and allowed 140.Its the first U.S mens team to fail to advance out of pool play since the 2004 Games in Athens. Gary Payton Jersey . 10 Texas Rangers jersey for one last time. 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When USA Basketball hands out jerseys to members of its national womens basketball team before they attempt to win a sixth straight Olympic gold medal at the Rio Games, it will also provide them with a history lesson.We let every player know who has worn that number before, said Carol Callan, the director of the national team. I think its important they have an appreciation for that when they put that uniform on.A lot of credit has been given to the 1996 team , which started the Americans string of gold medals. But the list Callan is referring to starts with names like Nancy Lieberman, Pat Summitt and Ann Meyers Drysdale. Summitt, who died Tuesday morning , wore No. 14. In Rio, that number will be worn by former UConn standout and New Liberty center Tina Charles.USA Basketball, which plans to honor the 1976 team during exhibition games before the Rio Olympics this summer, only uses jersey numbers 4-15. FIBA recently lifted that limitation though USAB continues to use just those numbers.Lieberman, Meyers Drysdale and Summitt were part of a group of college players who 40 years ago participated in the first womens basketball tournament at the Olympics in Canada and won the USAs first medal in the sport -- a silver.The United States, currently on a 41-game Olympic winning streak, was not expected to qualify for the games in 1976.The national team had finished eighth in the world championships in 1975. The U.S. was not assured a berth in the Montreal Games until two weeks before, when they won a qualifying tournament in Hamilton, Ontario.To prepare for the Olympics they were given a budget of $500 and the use of a personal credit card belonging to Bill Wall, the executive director of what would become USA Basketball.We were lucky we had uniforms, said Meyers Drysdale.Guard Sue Rojcewicz said the team practiced at the University of Rochester, where they stayed in dorm that was under construction and had no air conditioning. They trained three times a day. When they got to Montreal, the coaches would get them up at 4 a.m. to practice, because their first game against Japan was at 9 a.m.As a joke, Rojcewicz said, the players once showed up to the gym in their pajamas.One time we showed up in shower curtains and fins aand goggles, she said.dddddddddddd The coaches made us play like that for about a half hour.But all of that created a bond, the players said.They developed a style built around a fast pace, ball movement and pressure defense.They lost the Olympic opener of the five-game round-robin tournament to Japan and lost another game in the tournament to the dominant Soviet Union, the eventual gold medalists. But they beat Bulgaria and Canada. That set up a must-win game against Czechoslovakia to earn silver.Lieberman, now an assistant with the Sacramento Kings, said Billie Jean Moore -- coach of that 1976 team -- told the squad before the game that what we do today will impact the next 25 years. And she was right.The game was tied at halftime, before the Americans pulled away to win by 17 points.We threw that press on in the second half, said forward Gail Marquis. I remember Nancy Lieberman. Truly, I really think she jumped over somebody or she fouled somebody with her knees or her ankles, she was jumping so high.Meyers Drysdale said she understands that a silver medal today would be considered a disappointment. But 40 years ago, it was an amazing achievement.When we realized we won our medal, we just all flopped on top of each other like a pile of puppies in a kennel or something, said forward Mary Anne OConnor.Marquis said once she had that medal around her neck, she kept it there. She now wears it on a silver chain.Not too often do I take the medal off, she said. I like for people to see it.Before the players could receive their medals, Lieberman was selected for a random drug test, but had a problem providing a sample with some standing over her.I finally was able to go to the bathroom, and America has not been the same since, she quipped.Callan agrees, saying the win was bigger than that group or that year. Todays players, she said owe a lot to the 1976 team.They started it all, she said. They set the standard for how womens basketball teams have had success at the Olympics through great individual talent, a group that played together well as a team and enjoyed the journey along the way. ' ' '