Olympic Beach Volleyball Superstar’s Pendant May Bring Her Luck

Kerri Walsh Jennings wears Me&Ro jewelry on the Rio sand.

Does beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh Jennings’ Olympic success owe to jewelry? Hard to say, but a pendant she is wearing at the Rio Olympics is a popular amulet in Brazil for warding off bad luck. So reports Yahoo! Style, which says Walsh Jennings (pictured below) received the Hand of God Pendant as a gift from her husband. The pendant, designed by New York-based Me&Ro, is one of a number of the company’s jewelry items Walsh Jennings has been wearing on the sand in Rio. The gold medal-winning superstar has been wearing Me&Ro pieces since the 2004 Olympics in Athens. “Kerri is a big believer in the power of positive everything, and jewelry is a part of that,” Me&Ro designer Robin Renzi said.

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