RIO DE JANEIRO -- The screen at the fabulous Beach Volleyball Arena shows many match statistics, including the number of aces, blocks and digs, plus top serve speeds. Unfortunately, one necessary stat is missing: just how high the repeated earthquakes caused by the fans are registering on the Richter Scale.Sitting in the upper press area and feeling the stands sway and my ears pop from the noise, I suspect it could be a 6.4. Or maybe higher. Whatever the number, it has to be higher than the famous Beast Quake caused by Seattle Seahawks fans while cheering Marshawn Lynchs touchdown run several seasons ago. The fans here are that loud.Soccer is Brazils favorite sport, but the fans at the womens medal matches Wednesday night showed their monumental passion for beach volleyball. Not only was the 12,000-seat stadium completely filled with roaring fans, there were folks sitting on the Copacabana beachs sand banks outside the security fence, straining to watch the game on the video board mounted atop the stands.Inside the stadium, the fans roared Bra-zil! Bra-zil! Bra-zil! chants, waved their arms enthusiastically when the speakers played Monster block! after a powerful block and sang along excitedly to La Bamba, Volare and other tunes. Naturally, they also were vocally supporting their own countrys teams (but occasionally cheering the opposition, too) as they tried to win bronze and then gold in Wednesday nights two matches.At one point during the bronze-medal match, the announcer shouted, When I say April! you say Ross! But when he shouted April!, the Brazilian response naturally was mostly loud boos.Not that it mattered to Americans Kerri Walsh-Jennings or April Ross. They simply drew energy from the passionate crowd while coming back for a three-set victory.It was stereotypically Brazilian, and I mean that in the best way possible, Walsh-Jennings said of the phenomenal atmosphere. The energy is just relentless, and I felt like we had a great amount of fans for us there. They appreciate good volleyball.And bear in mind, there were all these fans here even though the matches started at 10 p.m. and midnight.Why is beach volleyball so popular here?Because we have many, many beaches, Brazilian silver medalist Agatha Bednarczuk said. Yes, its very important because of this. We can have many beach volleyball schools for kids. I had one school in my region, south of Rio, and we had 300 kids playing beach volleyball and beach soccer. Its in our lives.Even so, Bednarczuk said she never played in front of so many fans or where the energy level was so high. And she said that Tuesday night after she teamed with Barbara Seixas de Freitas in a semifinal victory against Walsh-Jennings and Ross. Wednesday nights matches were much louder.Unfortunately for the Brazilian fans, the volume and energy did not make enough of a difference for their country to win either medal match. In the opening match, Brazils Larissa Franca Maestrini and Talita Rocha won the first set and led 14-13 in the second when Walsh-Jennings made an incredible save by racing almost into the stands to keep the ball in play. She and Ross won the point, tied the score and rallied back to win the bronze.It was the fourth Olympic medal for Walsh-Jennings, who won gold in 2004, 2008 and 2012.When people talk about beach volleyball, they talk about Kerri Walsh, Rocha said. She is the most famous player in the world.In the gold-medal match, Bednarczuk and Seixas de Freitas lost in straight sets to the German team of Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst. As the match advanced, the fans quieted a bit, to the point where the quakes were reduced to mere tremors and the decibel level dropped to only slightly higher than a 747 during takeoff.Afterward, the Brazilian fans might have been outvoiced by the German fans during the playing of Coldplays When I Ruled the World.Or perhaps it only seemed that way to me because by then my hearing might have been severely damaged by the crowd noise. Even if my hearing is 50 percent of what it once was, I still will be able to hear the fans at Thursday nights mens gold-medal match between Brazil and Italy -- even though Ill be miles away at the track and field venue. Cheap Bears Jerseys China . PETERSBURG, Fla. Cheap Joel Iyiegbuniwe Jersey . Thousands of fans at Mosaic Stadium will be cozying up to each other in an effort to stay warm in chilly temperatures and block the Prairie wind that locals say can knock your socks off. http://www.cheapbearsjerseyselite.com/?tag=cheap-kylie-fitts-jersey . 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