Treasure Hunting

… Guess how they found it!

Kerri Walsh went up for a block at some point during her Sunday morning match against Japan and her wedding ring flew off of her hand. She didn’t even bat an eyelash, but kept playing and USA even won the match.

Broadcasters noticed what happened and thanks to the tapes, officials were able to go back over the area that they believed the ring had landed in. But even with video assistance, the ring was amongst 17,000 tons of sand that gets raked over before each match!

So what did they do? Well, they broke out the metal detectors!

The official in charge of metal detecting says “The problem is, we rake the court. We heard a few noises, a few were false alarms. When we found it, it was pretty much under the net.”

Is this the first time a (hobby) metal detector has made an appearance at the Olympics? Maybe metal detecting will eventually be an Olympic sport…? Probably not,… but we can dream!

Good luck to Kerri Walsh and the rest of the USA teams!

~ Liz ~

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