May-Treanor and Walsh: The best keep getting better

I have Olympic fever, caused by an overly compulsive need to watch every possible event in Beijing (including Equestrian) because I know in one week I am going to have to wait four more years for the 'Filet Mignon' of sporting events to be served again. 

My brain is fried and is on the verge of exploding, due to an un-healthy intake of NBC's HD coverage. My temperature is reaching the boiling point, and the cure to solve this disease is simple: More. 

I need more Dwayne Wade to Kobe Bryant, I need more Michael Phelps quest for eight, and a small sample of Track and Field would do me well. But what I need most of all is Women's Olympic Beach Volleyball. 

Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh are outrageous.  They flow like a well-oiled machine, and attack like a starved Tiger being let out of a cage. Their level of intensity and skill is incomparable to other teams in the world. 

If you take Michael Phelps out of the equation we might have the most dominant American Olympic athletes in these games. The Athens Gold medalists took one step closer to solidifying their dominance over the sport on Friday against the Belgiums

The duo defeated Belgium 24-22, and 21-10 on Friday. The Americans triumphed against five set points to rally and win the first match and cruised in the second in a 15 minute fashion.

Th victory gives May-Treanor and Walsh their 105th consecutive win. The #1 seeded combo are yet to lose a set in Beijing and will now move into the quarterfinals.

The two have been playing together since 2000, and the games in Beijing are their third.

In the 2000 Sydney games, May-Treanor strained her Abdominal muscle, and they finished a disappointing fifth.

After four years of mastering the international and domestic scene, the two won the Gold in Athens, and didn't lose a game in their seven matches in '04.

Although Walsh has had multiple shoulder surgeries the last few years -- including rotator cuff surgery in November-- the two seem to be cruising nicely on their way to repeating their 2004 performance. The two are yet to lose a game in Beijing, and their 24-22 victory of Belgium is the closest any opponent has gotten so far. 

Speculation says these will the final Olympic games for the tandem, as both are rumored to be looking to spend more time with family after these games.

Take it from me -- a man who has logged nearly twenty-two hours of Olympic coverage to his TiVO -- you want watch the 'Golden Girls' dominate their sport like very few have while you still have the chance to. 

Here is a slideshow of May-Treanor and Walsh through their first few games at the Olympics.