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Robert Meeuwsen, of the Netherlands, blocks against Nicholas Lucena, of the United States, during a men's beach volleyball match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
COVID-positive volleyball player describes quarantine life

Jul. 24, 2021 11:36 PM EDT

In this frame from video during a call with The Associated Press, beach volleyball player Taylor Crabb, of the United States, talks Saturday, July 24, 2021, about being forced to withdraw from the Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19 when he arrived to compete in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The first-time Olympian has been stuck in a quarantine hotel for more than 23 hours each day, occupying himself by playing cribbage and doing yoga with friends and family over FaceTime. (Courtesy of Taylor Crabb via AP)
By withdrawing, COVID-positive Crabb saved Gibb's Olympics

By Jimmy Golen Jul. 24, 2021 10:33 PM EDT

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2014, file photo, Tri Bourne makes a dig as he and John Hyden played Casey Patterson and Jake Gibb during the AVP Championships beach volleyball match at Huntington Beach, Calif. American beach volleyball player Taylor Crabb is out of the Olympics after several positive COVID-19 tests, and Bourne will take his place as the partner of four-time Olympian Jake Gibb when the competition begins at Tokyo’s Shiokaze Park this weekend. (Kyusung Gong/The Orange County Register, File)
Crabb out (COVID-19), Bourne in for US beach volleyball team

By Jimmy Golen Jul. 22, 2021 03:43 AM EDT