Two groups become three groups! The Paris Olympic women's volleyball system has changed its face, and the Chinese women's volleyball team has faced two obstacles to qualifying
Fivna figurative conference announced the format of the volleyball competition for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, unlike the past 12 teams divided into two groups for group single round robin, and then took the top 4 to advance to the top 8, this Olympic Games will divide the group stage into three groups, each group of the top 2 and the two groups of the best 3rd place to advance to the top 8, but how the 1/4 finals will be played has not yet been announced. After the two groups become three groups, the competitiveness of the line will be stronger, and the world ranking and the European and American powers will be the two major obstacles to the Chinese women's volleyball team.
In the past group stage, in fact, the impact of the ranking factors is not large, 12 teams are arranged according to the ranking snake, 6 teams a group, basically half of the round robin, the participating teams touch half, and then take the top 4 to advance to the top 8, the probability of promotion is also very large, the Chinese women excluded from the Tokyo Olympic Games, since 1984 have never lost the group stage, in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games is the 4th pressure line of the group to enter the top 8, all the way back to the strong enemies Brazil, the Netherlands and Serbia to win the championship, It can only be said that the Chinese women's volleyball team still has strength in the Rio Olympic Games, but the group stage did not play well, and now it is necessary to adopt the same format as football, 3 groups of 4 teams each, the competitiveness will be stronger, and the suspense will be much larger than before.
The 12 women's volleyball teams shortlisted for the Paris National Games are definitely grouped according to the world ranking, the world ranking at this time is more important than when the two groups, the ranking may encounter 2 strong rival teams, so this year and next two years of the World Women's Volleyball League and the World Championships and the Intercontinental Tournament and a series of competitions need to be extra hard, a little careless loss too much, even if it is training, once the resulting loss of points and the decline in the world ranking, the grouping of the Paris Olympic Games will have a great impact, The likelihood of encountering two or three teams in the same group increases.
According to the current ranking, the Chinese women's volleyball team temporarily ranked 3rd, if the host French women's volleyball team occupies a seed seat, the Chinese women's volleyball team may be in the same group as the world's no. 2 Brazilian team, the other two group match opponents once there is a European team, the group is not a very easy thing, if it is Poland, the Netherlands, Russia one of the teams, the Chinese women's volleyball team is not easy to play, once the group 3rd out of the 8th round, may encounter the other two groups of the group top, Therefore, the world ranking must be at the forefront of the current situation in order to benefit the grouping of the Paris Olympic Games.
The opponents of the Chinese women's volleyball team are very many, basically can be determined to be able to qualify for the Paris Olympic Games 12 team opponents, there must be the United States and Brazil women's volleyball two strong, European teams in each Olympic Games occupy more than 1/3 of the quota, Paris Olympic Games French women's volleyball team as the host of the early occupation of a seat, the Olympic qualification tournament will certainly have a lot of European teams to stand out, Italy, Serbia, Russia, Poland, the Netherlands, Germany, Turkey women's volleyball team and other strong teams are expected to participate in the Paris Olympic Games, The Chinese women's volleyball team may not be able to achieve perfection in the confrontation with the strong team, and with the current strength, winning or losing all depends on the on-the-spot play.