On day 13 of the Olympic Games, Latvian teammates Martins Plavins and Janis Smedins beat the Netherlands players Richard Schuil and Reinder Nummerdor by scoring two sets out of three in the men's beach volleyball bronze match.

Two-time defending champions May-Treanor and Jennings, from Team America, went out and held on to their title, taking home the gold once again for women's beach volleyball on Aug. 8.

It doesn't happen often - that the enemy of the U.S. is actually another American.

Bikinis, the uniforms worn by the beach volleyball women players, has always brought attention to the sport. The players at the London Games brought even more attention to themselves when they would embrace and touch each other after scoring points and big wins. The British media has been speculating if the intimacy among the players in public is part of an attention-getting scheme to win more fans.