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The girls of summer have finally made it back to the states. For the first time since slamming sand in Huntington, the top seeds have made it back… to Brooklyn and Long Beach.

And yes, it is a little too late for Team Crackpot.

Jen Boss/April Ross finally took the beach smack to the Olympic contenders Elaine Youngs and Nicole Branagh two weeks in a row. Brooklyn was an inspiring comeback. After a match one ass whoopin, Team Crackpot bounced back for a 21-13, 15-10 rebound which advanced them to the finals. In Moscow, just a few weeks earlier, the dynamic duo (whose time will come) lost out on their Olympic berth by just a few scant points. This time around it went their way. Having nothing to lose is very freeing. And so they did it again in Long Beach.

But just as Team Crackpot likes to repeat history,  they then lost in an uninspired two matches to the hands of Misty May and Kerri Walsh in both Brooklyn and Long Beach.As April Ross said "They make you make mistakes."

Misty and Kerri…can they be stopped?

That is a riddle than can only be answered in Chinese. At that point, I will be rooting all for of them.

With the decompression and stress that goes with zig-zagging across Europe.. everyone except Walsh/May had to be exhausted.

And now my thoughts turn to USA! USA!

I want to feel proud again. When they won the Olympics last time, Kerri knelt in the sand and put her hand over her mouth as she watched an ecstatic Misty leap into the crowds who, earlier in the year, had lost her mother. In one very visual moment, it was the most unselfish moment of a teammate I had every seen in sports. Kerri just relished watching her teammate enjoy a moment of a victory. It was a spontaneous moment about what sports should be about.

Few remember that moment, because the two later hugged while wearing their uniforms.

That got all the press.

Kerri and Misty along with Jenny Finch and other Olympians went to the White House for a photo op last week. EY and Nicole were strangely (yet not so) absent. With all that is uncertain, odd and weird, occasionally downright depressing bearing down on us, having Bush endorse the purest of all sports competitions was bittersweet. One one hand, I believe that the Olympics should always continue without boycott. It is one of the few times countries can get together, put our collective dicks on the table and we sort it out in the ring. I also believe the athletes shouldn’t have to keep their mouths closed. Interviews are just press. At the ESPYS the other night they honored Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two Olympians who heroically stuck out their fists in pride and were chastised for it.

As pros, Misty and Kerri offered their appreciation to the Bushes for supporting the Olympics. That stung a little, as we all Mr. Bush is a cruel, awful man who has made the United States of America a laughing stock. Bush would go drilling under the Hermosa pier if he thought he could make someone, anyone like and respect him.

But fortunately we have Mist, Kerri, Elaine and Nicole to represent the REAL America.

I just want to see the pure joy of victory. These four will show the world what real American values are about. It’s about hard training, perseverance and raw talent.

I want to be proud to be an American. So women, let’s show them the goods instead of the evils.

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