On April 6, the method for generating tickets for the women's volleyball team for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games was announced. Carefully interpret this method, I feel that whether the Chinese women's volleyball team can be successfully shortlisted is still suspenseful, and head coach Cai Bin needs to take precautions and deal with it early.
Cai Bin is under pressure
According to the established plan, the women's volleyball competition at the Paris Olympic Games is still 12 teams participating, and the competition will be divided into two groups. Among the 12 tickets, the host French women's volleyball team was automatically shortlisted, and the other 11 tickets were generated through two methods. One is to produce 6 teams through the Olympic qualification tournament; the other is that the remaining 5 teams are determined by the world ranking.
Unlike the 24 teams in the Tokyo Olympic Qualification Tournament, which are divided into 6 groups, the Paris Olympic Qualification Tournament, although there are also 24 teams, will be divided into 3 groups according to the world ranking, and the top two in each group will directly enter Paris. According to the current world table tennis pattern, the teams that have the strength to get tickets directly include at least eight teams including China, the United States, Italy, Serbia, Brazil, Turkey, the Netherlands and Russia. As far as the situation of the Chinese women's volleyball team is concerned, after experiencing the change of coach and the replacement of the old and the new, the overall strength must have declined, and playing with these seven teams may not be able to ensure a win. In other words, no matter how it is grouped, the Chinese women's volleyball team still has the risk of not getting the top two in the group and not having the opportunity to directly advance.
Paris Olympic Games women's volleyball ticket generation method
Once the qualification tournament is not successful, another way for the Chinese women's volleyball team to qualify for the Paris Olympics is to rely on the world ranking to qualify. However, it should be noted that in order to popularize the sport of volleyball and take care of areas with weak volleyball strength, the remaining 5 tickets will not be decided solely according to the world ranking, but will first ensure that teams from all continents participate. As a result, teams in Africa and the Caribbean, where volleyball is lower, get tickets. In this way, if the Chinese women's volleyball team wants to ensure the qualification for the Paris Olympic Games, it must lock in the first place in Asia.
From the current situation of the Asian women's volleyball team, not to mention the old rivals South Korea and Thailand, the biggest rival Japanese women's volleyball team has re-activated the former coach Masayoshi Makoto after the departure of Nakata Kumi, and the former world's best second pass Takeshita Yoshie has also entered the coaching staff of the Japanese national team. Therefore, the competitiveness of the Japanese women's volleyball team should be stronger than the Tokyo cycle, which is a great threat to the Chinese women's volleyball team. If the Chinese women's volleyball team wants to maintain the first place in Asia, it must first firmly suppress Japan. In addition, it is necessary to prevent the emergence of Thailand and South Korea.
Cai Bin led the team to train
Judging from the situation of the Chinese women's volleyball team itself, after the departure of the meritorious coach Lang Ping, Cai Bin took over the handsome seal. But when Cai Bin first took charge of the women's volleyball team in 2010, he once lost to Thailand. Now, under the reality that Zhu Ting has undergone surgery, Zhang Changning's return is undecided, and Yan Ni's retirement, Cai Bin can adjust the new women's volleyball team to what level, it is still difficult to determine. Therefore, comprehensive analysis, the Chinese women's volleyball team competing for tickets to the Paris Olympic Games is not without suspense. What do netizens think about this? Please express your opinions!