COUPLE HAS SAME DREAMS HUSBAND FULLY SUPPORTS BUCKNER DAVIS.Byline: Karen Crouse Staff Writer BONDI BEACH, Australia - She's in a country where females are always girls and the national vitamin is vitamin I see vitamin b7. testosterone testosterone (tĕstŏs`tərōn), principal androgen, or male sex hormone. One of the group of compounds known as anabolic steroids, testosterone is secreted by the testes (see testis) but is also synthesized in small quantities in the . So Annett Buckner Davis understands if some old-school Aussies are clucking their tongues right now and telling their mates at the pub that she really ought to be home nursing the ego of her husband, who failed in his Olympic bid, instead of reveling in her own moment, literally under the sun. Buckner Davis and partner Jenny Johnson Jordan Jenny Johnson Jordan (born June 8, 1973) is an American beach volleyball player, who won the silver medal at the 1999 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Marseille, alongside Annett Davis. won a second-round match today in the Olympic two-person beach volleyball For the ball used in this sport, see . Beach volleyball is an Olympic team sport played on sand. Two teams, positioned on either side of a net which divides a rectangular court, hit a volleyball, usually using the hands or arms. competition against a rising young Cuban pair who can approach Buckner Davis' and Johnson Jordan's athleticism, if not their experience. One more win and the No. 2-ranked pair in the world is assured an Olympic medal of one color or another. Cheering them every dig of the way is Byron Davis Byron Davis (born 8 October 1973) is a squash coach and former professional squash player from Australia. As a player, his most notable successes came in doubles play. , who finished 16th in the 100-meter butterfly butterfly, any of a large group of insects found throughout most of the world; with the moths, they comprise the order Lepidoptera. There are about 12 families of butterflies. Most adult moths and butterflies feed on nectar sucked from flowers. at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in August. A month before Davis missed qualifying to compete in Sydney, Buckner Davis and Johnson Jordan - both of whom are from Tarzana - made it by virtue of finishing as the top-ranked U.S. team over a two-year qualifying period. It can become terribly awkward sharing the same dream and a house, too, when the dream becomes a reality for one partner and not the other. Swimmer B.J. Bedford has been on both sides of the scenario. She missed making the 1996 Olympic team by one spot while her boyfriend (now fiance) Tom Sorensen Thomas ("Tom") Sorensen (born April 6, 1971 in Racine, Wisconsin) is a former American volleyball player, who represented the United States men's national volleyball team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. competed in Atlanta as a member of the U.S. men's indoor volleyball volleyball, outdoor or indoor ball and net game played on a level court. An upright net, 3 ft (or 1 m) high, the top of which stands 8 ft (2.43 m) from the ground for men, 7 ft 4 1/8 in (2. team. Bedford remembers eavesdropping Secretly gaining unauthorized access to confidential communications. Examples include listening to radio transmissions or using laser interferometers to reconstitute conversations by reflecting laser beams off windows that are vibrating in synchrony to the sound in the room. on an interview Sorensen was doing with a reporter in 1996 so she'd know how he felt about being an Olympian; Sorensen wouldn't talk about it with her for fear it would be adding salt to her raw wound. Four years later, Bedford earned an Olympic berth in the 100 backstroke right after Sorensen became one of the final cuts from the U.S. Olympic volleyball team. He was at the swimming trials when Bedford won the 100-meter backstroke. Said Bedford, ``He had tears running down his face. That was the most joyous joy·ous adj. Feeling or causing joy; joyful. See Synonyms at glad1. joy  ous·ly adv. moment for me. We both exalt when the
other does well.''
Buckner Davis, who turns 28 on Saturday, said she and Byron are the same way. He lets her know how happy and proud he is of her, which in turn allows Buckner Davis to throw herself into the whole experience of being an Olympian rather than having to tiptoe through it. ``It hasn't been very hard,'' Buckner Davis said, ``because I know how excited he is for me.'' On Monday, Buckner Davis got Byron a day pass to the Olympic athletes' village and together they took in all the sights and sounds on the grounds. It was the next best thing to marching side-by-side in the opening ceremonies. ``He kind of got to experience everything with me,'' Buckner Davis said. Buckner Davis and Johnson Jordan, who is married to ex-UCLA football player Kevin Jordan, are proof that behind every great woman is a good man. ``He is different than most of the other guys,'' Buckner Davis said of her husband. ``He's so supportive of me. That's definitely one of the things that attracted me to him. Not everyone can do that. Not everyone can take a backseat when their partner is in the spotlight.'' Not that she expects everybody in a country that calls women ``sheilas'' to understand that. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Annett Buckner Davis, left, has support from her husband Byron, who missed qualifying for Sydney in the 100-meter butterfly at the U.S. swimming trials. Russell McPhedran/Associated Press |
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