Dalhausser and Rogers move up in the Olympic ranking

(BEIJING, June 30) -- With their gold medal claimed on Sunday, Dalhausser and Rogers have now compiled a total of 5460 points, ranked No. 2 on the men's Olympic qualifying list.

The American pair is now within 40 points of tying Emanuel and Ricardo of Brazil, who failed to appear in Stavanger this week due to Ricardo's foot injury. Emanuel and Ricardo now hold a total score of 5500 points for their best eight SWATCH FIVB World Tour finishes since May 2007.

In the bronze medal match of this week's ConocoPhillips Grand Slam, Brink and Dieckmann of Germany defeated Ronnes and Boersma 21-16 and 21-11 in 42 minutes, thus moving up in the Olympic qualifying list with 4480 points. Their current ranking is No. 5, leading Dmitri Barsouk/Igor Kolodinsky of Russia and Penggen Wu/Linyin Xu of China.