Birthday girl Misty May-Treanor and Kerry Walsh Jennings are off to a good start in the Summer Olympics…

Misty May-Treanor walked off the beach volleyball court at Horse Guards Parade holding a brightly colored cupcake — a gift from partner Kerri Walsh Jennings’ mother. Their match, which started late Monday and ran past midnight, ended too late for May-Treanor to blow out the pirate candle on her actual 35th birthday, but it was a victory worthy of a party. “We’re celebrating on California time,” Walsh Jennings said early Tuesday morning in London after the 21-14, 21-19 victory over Czechs Marketa Slukova and Kristyna Kolocova. It was the 16th consecutive Olympic victory for the two-time gold medalists. The Americans, who have never lost a set in three Olympics, fell behind 18-15 in the second before tying it 18-all.

Why hasn’t anyone ever asked this question before? I don’t follow beach volleyball religiously, but ANY sports fan knows who Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings are…. They’ve been dominating the beach volleyball game for years…

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