TORONTO — After competing with different partners at the Tokyo Games, Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson are joining forces this summer at the Paris Olympics.
Humana-Paredes and Wilkerson, both from Toronto, were part of Canada's Olympic beach volleyball team announced Friday by Volleyball Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee.
Humana-Paredes and Wilkerson are currently ranked fourth in the world and recently won silver at the Ostrava Elite 16 event in Czechia Wilkerson and Humana-Paredes had to work quickly to gear up for a run to Paris after teaming up two months before the qualification window opened. Bansley is back in action after briefly retiring after the Tokyo Olympics, where she and Wilkerson advanced to the quarterfinals following an upset of third-ranked Kelly Claes and Sarah Sponcil of the United States. She will team up with Bukovec in Paris.
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