With recent news that Misty May-Treanor is probably out of the competition due to an injury she sustained to her Achilles on Friday, and reports that dancer Derek Hough was rushed to the hospital after blacking out in rehearsal on Saturday, it almost appears that the secret to winning DWTS this season is avoiding (or surviving) injury!...

LAist was on hand for this week's taping of The Soup, which included the above clip of Dancing With the Stars contestant and Olympic gold medalist Misty May-Treanor and her partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy. According to stories posted today by MSNBC and E! Online, May-Treanor injured her Achilles tendon the following day during a DWTS rehearsal and it is not yet clear how this will affect her status on the show. More info after the jump....

They've now won two gold medals, can they both make baby Olympians now? In an interview with NBC's Bob Coasts, the answer is yes. Misty May Treanor told him that "We'd like to make beach volleyball players for the future." During the first week of the games, they said they both want to be pregnant next year with cautious plans (you know, priorities change when you have a kid) to return to playing afterwards.......

Kerri Walsh (left) and Walsh with Misty May-Treanor (right). | Photos by Associated Press "No one's ever done it," exclaimed SoCal native Misty May-Treanor after becoming beach volleyball gold medal champions for the second time in a row (remember Athens?) today. Congrats, girls!......