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U.S. Olympic beach volleyball teams appear set as silver medalist bows out

Lauren Fendrick and Brooke Sweat appeared to clinch the last U.S. Olympic beach volleyball spot this week.

Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross and the men’s pairs of Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena and Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson previously mathematically clinched berths.

The four Olympic pairs are expected to be officially announced last week.

Fendrick and Sweat mathematically clinched a spot after 2012 Olympic silver medalist Jennifer Kessy and Emily Day were eliminated in pool play at the final Olympic qualifying event in Hamburg, Germany, on Thursday.