Beijing, China, August 20, 2008 - Men's beach volleyball final at the Beijing Olympics will be played between Brazil and the United States but defending champions from the South American country will miss the gold medal match.

Brazilian defending champions Emanuel Rego and Ricardo Santos were knocked out in a semifinal on Wednesday. Their fellow Brazilians, third-placed duo Marcio Araujo and Fabio Magalhaes, terminated their dream of winning title again in straight sets (22-20, 21-18).

"Fabio and Marcio played very well in the match. Their blocks and strikes were excellent and we made a lot of mistakes," commented Santos after the match."We knew the match would be very difficult. We gave 120 percent of our energy in the match, not 100 percent," said Araujo. "We played well in defense and blocks," he said.

Rego and Santos will meet Georgia's Renato Gomes and Jorge Terceiro, who lost to U.S. duo Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser in another semifinal, in the bronze medal match on Friday,

while the two Brazilian finalists will face U.S. duo Rogers/Dalhausser in the gold medal match.

Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser of the United States downed their rivals in another semifinal on Wednesday. They breezed past Renato Gomes/Jorge Terceiro of Georgia in two straight sets 21-11, 21-13.

The Georgian pair, who surprisingly eliminated fifth-seeded Reinder Mummerdor and Richard Schuil of the Netherlands in the quarterfinals, had hardly any resistance in most of time against the U.S. duo, especially the 2.06-meter-tall Dalhausser, whose efficiency at the net is big headache for almost all rivals.