2021 Olympics women’s beach volleyball gold medal match: How to watch online

The gold medal match for the women’s beach volleyball tournament will give April Ross and Alix Klineman the chance to taste Olympic gold for the first time.

The time has come for the final match of the women’s beach volleyball tournament at the 2021 Olympics.

American duo April Ross and Alix Klineman punched their ticket to the gold medal match in Tokyo with a victory over Switzerland. Their opponents, the Australians, bested the Lavian pair to meet them.

Ross has been here before. She made the gold medal match with teammate Jennifer Kessy at the 2012 Olympics in London. However, she had to settle for silver. She came back at the 2016 Olympics in Rio with a bronze medal alongside Kerri Walsh Jennings. Now 39 years old, a second chance at gold is in front of her.

Klineman has been Ross’s teammate since 2018. This is the 31-year-old’s first run at the Olympics.

How to watch 2021 Olympics women’s beach volleyball gold medal match

Date: Thursday, Aug. 5
Start time: 10:30 p.m. ET
Location: Tokyo
Stadium: Shiokaze Park
TV Info: NBCSN (replay on Aug. 6 at 8:00 p.m. ET)
Live Stream: NBC Olympics, FuboTV
Ross and Klineman will have to get through Australia’s Mariafe Artacho del Solar and Taliqua Clancy in order to grab gold. They beat Latvia’s Anastasija Kravcenoka and Tina Graudina in straight sets to advance.

Artacho del Solar also competed for Australia in Rio, but this will be her first medal at the Olympics. Clancy appeared at the 2016 games as well, though they were with different partners. The only question they have left to answer is whether they’ll take first or second.

The decisive matches will take place at Shiokaze Park in Tokyo on Thursday night. A live stream is available through NBC’s Olympic website. A delayed broadcast of the gold medal event will air a day later on Friday on NBCSN.