At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, the two main sub-attackers were Lai Yawen and Wang Yi. Wang Yi and Li Yueming are from the Shanghai women's volleyball team, with a height of 1 meter 89, comprehensive technology, outstanding netting, and outstanding defensive ability in the back row. She also played in the free man position before, and had to say that the secondary attack technology of that era was comprehensive. Another young player has also begun to show her prominence in the top arena, she is the first back fly queen in the history of the Chinese women's volleyball team, Wu Yongmei.
Wu Yongmei, with a height of 1.86 meters and a height of 3.10 meters, is the deputy attacker of the Bayi women's volleyball team. In fact, before Wu Yongmei's debut, the secondary attack of the Chinese women's volleyball team was mainly based on tactical attack and net blocking and rear row support, and most of the attack was coordinated with the receiver, such as the famous double fast swim of that year, that is, the secondary attack and the quick attack of the receiving and the running of the front row of the main attack were integrated. This is also because the early Chinese women excluded Lang Ping's offensive strength to be able to fight a hard battle in the world women's volleyball arena, and the rest still belong to the technical flow. The tactical attack of the secondary attack becomes the balance that determines the team's victory or defeat. And Wu Yongmei's one-legged flying in the second position can be said to have become the core of the team's attack for a long time in the Chinese women's volleyball team.
Single-foot flying is the first of the Chinese women's volleyball team. This technology has extremely high requirements for the physical fitness and technical application of the team members and the ability to stay in the air. If the team members do not have outstanding ability to stay in the air, they can only play back fast in the position relatively close behind the second pass, or the front fast in front of the second pass. Since the back fly is called flying, it requires the attacking team members to have a lag in the air, and can move and change in the air, otherwise the opponent's net can easily find our offensive line line, and it will lose the purpose of involving the left wing attack. And Wu Yongmei's back flying attack can be said to have brought this technology to a new height. After Lang Ping retired, the main offensive strength of the Chinese women's volleyball team was not strong, and Sun Yue had been cultivated as a key object, but after the Swiss women's volleyball elite tournament was hit by the Cuban team Sanchez and injured his knee, the offensive strength declined significantly. Wu Yongmei's back flight, which was originally the purpose of involvement, became the core of the Chinese team's attack. Even when we adjust the attack, we can see the second pass in the back row to send the ball to the second position, allowing Wu Yongmei to complete the back flying attack.
Thanks to her excellent physical fitness, Wu Yongmei's back flight line is long, there is plenty of time to choose the line and landing point during the flat-screen flight, and her various techniques are skilled, the offensive force is sufficient, the personal tactics are rich, the long back fly, the short back fly and the back fast, the back slip are combined with each other, and the attack on the right wing has a very high success rate. In the stage when the main attack of the Chinese women's volleyball team fell into a downturn, Wu Yongmei was used as the first offensive personnel of the whole team for a long time. For the opponent, in fact, the offensive routine of the Chinese women's volleyball team's two-point attack round at that time was very simple, that is, it was mainly Based on Wu Yongmei. But many times we have seen that even the fans know that this ball must be Wu Yongmei's attack, but the other party just can't stop it, which is Wu Yongmei's strength and ability. For a long time, the two teams of Japan and South Korea were jealous of Wu Yongmei, even surpassing Yin Yin and Sun Yue.
Wu Yongmei's strong ability not only helped the Chinese women's volleyball team to reach the podium three times in the 1995 World Cup, the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and the 1998 World Championships, even in 1999 and 2000, when the Chinese women's volleyball team fell back into a trough, she still relied on her absolute strength and rich experience to effectively support the team's right-wing attack. The "Silver Generation" mostly chose to fade out of the national team after the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, and as the only remaining veteran, Wu Yongmei was still called into the team by Chen Zhonghe and his guidance. However, on the eve of the 2002 World Championships, Wu Yongmei was not selected for the competition list, thus ending her national career. The "No. 5 Whirlwind", which once set off a frenzy in the women's volleyball arena, officially waved goodbye to the volleyball arena.