The U.S. women’s team beat Japan despite having to recover from the shock of yesterday’s news that a relative of the U.S. men’s coach was stabbed to death in Beijing.

“The players were very down,” U.S. women’s coach “Jenny” Lang Ping told reporters after her team’s 3-1 victory on the first day of action in the volleyball tournament.

“It was very difficult for the players to move on that quickly. We only had three hours to deal with everything.”

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