Beach volleyball in China, Take One

(AP/Andy Wong)
China's Yue Yuan, left, and Zhang WenWen play against Malaysia's Teck Hua and Shun Thing during a FIVB Beach Volleyball Women's Challenge match at Chaoyang Park Beach Volleyball Ground Stadium in Beijing, China today. The match is part of a series of test events for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games one year countdown.

Oh, yeah, they had cheerleaders there, too.

And the attendance ... not so great.

But a Canadian player with tats knew the handsignals. This one means: "Hurry and finish so we can get some dim sum."