{"id":12979,"date":"2012-07-31T01:49:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T23:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/update-2-olympics-beach-volleyball-the-wall-blocks-british-hopes\/"},"modified":"2012-07-31T01:49:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T23:49:01","slug":"update-2-olympics-beach-volleyball-the-wall-blocks-british-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-olympics-beach-volleyball-the-wall-blocks-british-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Olympics-Beach volleyball-The Wall blocks British hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds Swiss win, quotes)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Nigel Hunt<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, July 30<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; The brilliance of Brazil&#8217;s<br \/>\nRicardo Santos ensured hosts Britain suffered another defeat in<br \/>\nthe men&#8217;s beach volleyball tournament despite passionate support<br \/>\nat the Horse Guards Parade on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We never had so much support. They are pushing you, it felt<br \/>\nlike the stands might come down. The support was huge and we<br \/>\nlost. I can&#8217;t imagine what happens if we win,&#8221; Britain&#8217;s Steve<br \/>\nGrotowski said after he and John Garcia-Thompson were beaten 2-0<br \/>\n(21-17, 21-12) by Ricardo and Pedro Cunha.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ricardo, known as &#8216;The Wall&#8217; because of his strength in<br \/>\ndefence, has a complete collection of Olympic medals, winning<br \/>\ngold in Athens, silver in Sydney and bronze in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We lost to the best team in the world. Ricardo could be the<br \/>\nbest player of the tournament,&#8221; Garcia-Thompson told reporters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ricardo also won plaudits from his team mate Cunha.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No matter who they support &#8211; us or the opponents &#8211; Ricardo<br \/>\nloves this. That&#8217;s why he is legend. He helps me out all the<br \/>\ntime. He supports me with great blocking and setting,&#8221; Cunha<br \/>\nsaid following a second successive victory.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Grotowski and Garcia-Thompson remain winless.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds Swiss win, quotes) By Nigel Hunt LONDON, July 30 (Reuters) &#8211; The brilliance of Brazil&#8217;s Ricardo Santos ensured hosts Britain suffered another defeat in the men&#8217;s beach volleyball tournament despite passionate support at the Horse Guards Parade on Monday. &#8220;We never had so much support. They are pushing you, it felt like the stands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-12979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}