When you're watching volleyball at the Paris Olympics, you might notice a player wearing a different colored jersey than the rest of their team - like Team USA's Justine Wong-Orantes, shown in ...

Team USA athletes like Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings, for example, became household names after taking home ...

Kerri Walsh Jennings is in her fourth Olympics — going for her fourth gold medal in women’s beach volleyball — and she has a pretty good idea of what kind of uniform she’d like to wear ...

INSIDER looked into the matter and found that the answer is really simple: Women beach volleyball players wear the bikinis because they want to, not because it's required. "The athletes are ...