MELISSA BLOCK, host: And now one final bit of news to report, a very different conflict between Russia and Georgia, this one on the beach. We're talking about women's Olympic beach volleyball.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, host: Today in Beijing, the Georgian team came from behind to beat Russia. There's just one catch, and a catch the Russians were quick to point out. The two women making up the Georgian side are actually Brazilian.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, host: Turns out Brazil has a glut of great beach volleyball players, but the country can only send two teams to Beijing. So the two Brazilians got Georgian citizenship.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, host: After the match, one of them, Cristine Santanna, paid tribute to her fellow Georgians. She said this: I fight here as they fight there. Today I feel like I am a Georgian.
An Olympic beach volleyball match today pitted Georgia against Russia — that as political tensions between the two countries remain high. The Georgian team won the contest, but Russia cried foul. The Georgians, it seems, are Brazilian.