Brazil’s Ana Patricia Silva Ramos and Eduarda “Duda” Santos Lisboa have the answer: Win an Olympic gold medal.
The Youth Olympic Games champions in beach volleyball relived their golden memories from Nanjing 2014 when they stepped on the podium again late Friday night, 9 August, at the Olympic Games Paris 2024. And there was plenty of déjà vu about this moment in the French capital. Ana Patricia and Duda were playing together again, they beat a Canadian pair in three sets in the final again and the Olympic rings were once more their backdrop.
The difference was that this time around, their bond was even stronger.
“We have been remembering this every day. The Nanjing final was against Canada, and this one, too,” Ana Patricia told Olympics.com after winning Olympic gold against Canadians Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson. “Many tournaments we made the finals against Canada, so we always wondered ‘what if.’ We feel so accomplished, so certain of what we built from years ago. It helped us in achieving this connection, this friendship.”
