They’re the two women who handed Kerri Walsh Jennings, alongside her beach volleyball partner April Ross, her first Olympic loss on Tuesday to reach the gold medal match against Germany.

Phil Dalhausser, a 2008 Olympic gold medalist, plans to retire after this season, his 23rd in pro beach volleyball.

the volleyball competition at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games has been one of the Games’ great success stories and it is undoubtedly worthy of the same level of limelight generated by beach volleyball.