Off Track ..... Baby plans could spell end for US pair

Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor have lived through thick and thin together for eight years, but the most powerful partnership in women's beach volleyball could soon be broken up by babies.

Both US players have married since they won gold at the Athens Games and while each is keen to get on with the next stage of family life, they were divided over how much they would play as mothers.

"I hope to be pregnant soon after the Games, take a year off and then come back," said Walsh, whose husband Casey Jennings is also a professional beach volleyball player.