U.S. duo Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss impressed in their beach volleyball Pool B opener, defeating Canada's Heather Bansley and Sophie Bukovec in straight sets as the Eiffel Tower looked on in Paris.

Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss are going to their first Olympics as the first U.S. beach volleyball team to qualify for the Paris Games, a team like no other in Olympic history. Kloth and Nuss ...