On February 7, Beijing time, the Chinese Volleyball Association announced the standards for entering the women's volleyball national team talent candidate pool and the list of athletes in the database, which aroused strong concern among netizens.
According to this notice, in addition to passing the physical fitness test, there are also height and weight requirements for wanting to enter the warehouse. For example, the height of the main attacker needs to be between 185.8 ±4.95 (unit: cm) and the weight is between 71.9 ± 8.34 (unit: kg). According to the standards of the Chinese Volleyball Association, such as the world's first-class reception and the Serbian women's volleyball core Boskovic can not be selected. Why? Because she was overweight. Other world-renowned women's volleyball players who cannot enter the library under this standard include Gabi, the main attacker of the Brazilian women's volleyball team (whose height is not up to standard), the main attacker of the American women's volleyball team, Baqi (overweight), Castillo, one of the best free people in the world women's volleyball world (not up to standard), Zehra, the main deputy attacker of the Turkish women's volleyball team (overweight) and so on.
According to this standard, the Chinese Volleyball Association also officially gave a list of players in the library, which included the main players of the Chinese women's volleyball team such as Zhu Ting, Li Yingying, Zhang Changning, etc., and also included the fresh blood such as Wu Mengjie, Wang Yifan, and Xue Yizhi, who are highly anticipated by fans. However, Lin Li, a member of the 2016 Rio Olympic Champion and former Chinese women's volleyball team's main free agent, is not on the list, and it is not known whether the latter has decided to retire or is not on the list because it does not meet the standards. After determining that Cai Bin 'erjinGong' took over the Chinese women's volleyball coaching whip, the Chinese Volleyball Association announced the selection criteria, and it seems that the new national team training list will soon be announced. After the announcement of the big list, Cai Bin will officially start leading team training to prepare for the two most important events of the year - the Hangzhou Asian Games and the Women's Volleyball World Championships.