PHIL DALHAUSSER

The AVP is heading back to the beach with a bunch of new teams and a lot more tournaments for them to figure things out.

An extensive crime scene remained in Queens Sunday morning at the site where 10 people were shot hours earlier on Saturday night. Police shut down five blocks of 37th Avenue while they investigated.

Caeleb Dressel and Emma McKeon earned milestone medals at the Olympic pool before the race to determine the fastest man in the world took center stage.

Americans Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena got knocked out of the Olympic beach volleyball tournament on Sunday by Cherif Samba and Ahmed Tijan of Qatar. If things had gone a little differently, it could have been Dalhausser and Lucena wearing the Qatari flag instead of the Stars and Stripes. In 2005, when they were self-described knuckleheads working as substitute teachers in South Carolina, the Americans were offered airline tickets to Qatar and a chance to become citizens.

The American team of Sarah Sponcil and Kelly Claes were ousted from the Olympic beach volleyball tournament by Canada.

Belarus track sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya says her Olympic team officials tried to remove her from Japan in a dispute that led to a standoff Sunday evening at Haneda Airport in Tokyo.

Mental health has been a discussion in sports the past year but became the topic of these Olympics when gymnast Simone Biles chose self-care over sporting success.

Caeleb Dressel got his first individual gold medal, the Chinese women put together a record-setting relay and American Sunisa Lee won the women’s all-around gymnastics gold.

Team USA's Lucena/Dalhausser duo overpowered Argentina to advance to the next round.

Day 5 of the Tokyo Games features another busy day at the Aquatics Centre with five swimming finals and the men’s diving synchronized springboard final.

Lucena, a Florida State alum, has been teammates with Dalhausser since 2015, and is helping the 2008 gold medalist chase an elusive second medal.

Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena, the only U.S. players in action in the first day of beach volleyball, lost their opener to the Netherlands' Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen.

Three-time beach volleyball gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings was defeated in her bid to reach the Olympics for a sixth time when she and partner Brooke Sweat lost in a qualifying match in Ostrava, Czech Republic.