In order to better prepare for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, the Chinese Basketball Association announced the talent pool list of men's basketball and women's basketball teams, including Yi Jianlian, Guo Allen, Zhou Qi and other popular stars. At the same time, the Chinese men's basketball team ushered in good news, the South Korean men's basketball team was disqualified from the World Preliminary Tournament, and it did not qualify for the Paris Olympic Games in advance. Details are as follows:
Why was the South Korean men's basketball world qualifier disqualified?
The 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup Asian Qualifiers are underway, and in the games that have ended, the Chinese men's basketball team has defeated the Japanese men's basketball team twice, temporarily ranking 3rd in Group B with a record of 2 wins and 0 losses. In the case of 2 games less than the Japanese men's basketball team, the points difference is only 1 point, which shows that the Chinese men's basketball team is not a problem in advancing to the second round.
In contrast, the Korean men's basketball team in Group A, "luck" is extremely poor. After checking the official website of FIBA, the Korean men's basketball team has been disqualified. The reason for this is nothing more than one point: the South Korean men's basketball team failed to participate in the World Cup Asian qualifiers held in February for some reason, violating the relevant regulations. Although the Korean men's basketball team has informed FIBA in advance, the latter has not changed the schedule, which eventually led to the disqualification of the Korean men's basketball team for the World Preliminary Tournament.
Why did the South Korean men's basketball team fail to qualify for the Paris Olympics in advance?
According to the regulations, the results of the Men's Basketball World Cup are directly linked to the qualification for the Olympic Games. For example, in the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup, the Chinese men's basketball team unexpectedly missed the qualification for the Olympic Games in the case of unanimous optimism, and then could only seek opportunities through the losing tournament and compete with the remaining 23 teams for 4 places. As a result, as everyone can see, the Chinese men's basketball team did not qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.
Therefore, for the Korean men's basketball team, since the qualification for the World Preliminary Tournament has been cancelled, it means that it is impossible to qualify for the Olympic Games, let alone qualify for the unsuccessful competition. In other words, the South Korean men's basketball team has declared that it will not qualify for the Paris Olympics in advance, and perhaps preparing for the 2028 Olympic Games is a good choice.
Why is the Chinese men's basketball team ushering in good news?
With the passage of time, the position of the Chinese men's basketball team in the "post-Yao Ming" era in Asia has gradually been shaken. On the one hand, the Former Atlantic Division of the Australian Men's Basketball Team and the New Zealand Men's Basketball Team joined the Asian Division, directly changing the pattern of the Asian Division, squeezing out the participation quota of the original Asian team, resulting in increasing competition in the Asian Division; on the other hand, the Japan-South Korea Men's Basketball Team set off a wave of "naturalization tide", and while its own strength was greatly improved, it threatened the status of the Chinese men's basketball team.
Based on the above two points, with the cancellation of the South Korean men's basketball world preliminary qualification, it means that the Chinese men's basketball team has one less powerful opponent, which is naturally a rare windfall! However, back to the point, if the Chinese men's basketball team wants to go further in the men's basketball World Cup, it must also take its fate into its own hands. After all, the iron still needs to be hard, and I hope that the Chinese men's basketball team will live up to expectations, concentrate on cultivation, and strive to shine in the next men's basketball World Cup and Olympic Games!
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