Kloth and nuss next match
PARIS — Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth’s pursuit of an Olympic medal has entered its next phase.
The former LSU beach volleyball All-Americans open play in the Round of 16 at 11 a.m. Monday at Eiffel Tower Stadium. They will face the Canadian duo of Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson.
The winner between the U.S. and Canada will play in the quarterfinals at 3 p.m. Tuesday against the winner of a match between Daniela Alvarez/Tania Moreno of Spain and Katja Stam/Raisa Schoon of The Netherlands.
Should Nuss and Kloth advance to the semifinals, that match would be at 2 p.m. Thursday. Medal matches are Friday, with the bronze medal match at 2 p.m. and the gold at 3:30 p.m.
Nuss and Kloth sailed through preliminary play, winning all three of their matches in Pool B while dropping only one set. They beat the other Canadian team of Heather Bansley and Sophie Bukovec 21-17, 21-14, then dispatched of 2020 Tokyo Olympics silver medalists Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy of Australia 21-16, 21-16.
The No. 2 team in the world, Nuss and Kloth dropped their opening set in the last pool play match to Xue Chen and Xia Xinyi of China 21-15, then rallied to
Former LSU Beach Stars Kloth and Nuss Rewrite The Script All The Way To The Olympics
PARIS – Former LSU Beach Volleyball Stars Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss, currently the No. 2 ranked women’s beach pair in the world, will begin competition at the Paris Olympics on Saturday. Training in Baton Rouge and never splitting up as a duo, TKN has rewritten the script in the professional beach volleyball world.
“I want to change the script of what beach volleyball is,” Nuss said on their TKN mini documentary Pointing Two Paris. “When you become a pro, you have to go to California. I don’t like that. Louisiana is my home. I want to do it here. I want to prove these people wrong.
“We decided that Paris 2024, that was our target and we wanted to be Gold Medalists. We had zero points and we had to figure out how we were going to get into these international tournaments and so many people were telling us to split up.”
“Those moments were really challenging,” Kloth added. “I started to believe them after the 100th, 200th, 300th person was telling us. We were freaking out. How are we not listening to any of the experts? It was going against all the rules and everything we were supp
Kloth and Nuss Cruise Through Beach Volleyball Olympic Pool Play
PARIS – Former LSU Beach Volleyball stars Taryn Kloth and Kristen finished play in Pool B undefeated, taking down the Chinese pair of Xue Chen and Xia Xinyi of China in three sets on Thursday to advance to Round of 16 which begins single elimination at the Olympics.
Team TKN, the No. 2 ranked duo in the world, finished Pool Play 3-0 after a comeback victory against China after dropping the first set and then having to wait through a weather delay. Kloth and Nuss, playing all three of their pool play matches at 10 p.m. Paris time, have shined brilliantly alongside the Eiffel Tower.
On Kloth’s birthday in 2022 when the duo was still scraping to gain international points for a chance to reach the Paris Olympics, Nuss presented her with a special gift. It was an ankle bracelet that read TKN 8/11/24, the day of the closing ceremonies. Nuss told Kloth, “By this day this day, we will be Gold Medalists.”
Now that goal truly takes focus, four victories away from rewriting the script. Kloth and Nuss will play in the Round of 16 which will take place on Sunday and Monday. The official schedule will not be set until
Olympics Beach: Nuss-Kloth win Olympic opener over Bansley-Bukovec
Olympics Beach
Travis Mewhirter
July 27, 2024
Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth swept their opener; Miles Partain and Andy Benesh got swept in the first Olympics beach volleyball match under the Eiffel Tower.
Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth win debut Olympic match over Canada
Despite what the score may suggest, Kristen Nuss is adamant that what the 12,000 attendees in Eiffel Tower Stadium and the millions more watching at home saw on Sunday was not great beach volleyball.
The scores of her and Taryn Kloth’s opening win over Canada’s Sophie Bukovec and Heather Bansley looked clean enough, a 21-17, 21-14 victory that was the second-most lopsided win of Saturday’s slate. That, Nuss might argue, is misleading.
But the same could have been said for their most recent win at the Gstaad Elite16. Winning at the highest level in the world is no easy feat. Sometimes you have to win ugly. That, in a sense, is what they did in Switzerland four weeks ago. They required comebacks big and small, including an 8-3 mountain to climb in the third set of the finals – a mountain they climbed just fine, to the tune of a 12
USA beach volleyball's perfect top tandem braves storm, delay, shows out for LeBron James
PARIS – Nothing has been able to stop the United States women’s beach volleyball tandem of Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Not the rain or lightning that filled the skies around them Thursday night at Eiffel Tower Stadium. Not the 75-minute delay at the most pivotal point in the match, after they had battled back from one set down. And definitely not any of the three teams they played during pool play to open the Games.
Nuss and Kloth are now off to the Round of 16 unblemished following an eventful three-set victory (15-21, 21-16, 15-12) over China’s Xinyi Xia and Chen Xue – a gritty, come-from-behind victory for the young Americans with LeBron James in the stands. (“King James” did indeed wait out the weather.)
Kloth joked that she and Nuss watched a movie during the break. But what they actually did was cloak themselves in as many towels as they could to stay warm to deal with the cold front that came through with the storm. Once it passed, they had 20 minutes to warm up and spent 15 of those minutes in intense movement.
“You definitely have to fire it up,