FiVB announced the volleyball qualification for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, the biggest change is to cancel the continental defeats and change to the world's highest ranking team in the intercontinental direct entry, the second change is that the 6 groups of the Tokyo Olympic Games qualification tournament took the first place, and now the 3 groups take the top 2. The Asian Volleyball Federation took the lead in expressing its opposition, and pointed out that if the Chinese women's volleyball team cannot qualify in the Olympic qualification tournament, the world ranking is the highest in Asia, which will be the first time in more than half a century that only 1 team of Asian women's volleyball players has participated in the Olympic Games, or is it intended to actively fight for opportunities for Japan, South Korea and Thailand, which are ranked lower.
The 2024 Olympic Games are held in Paris, in fact, which continent is held, it will certainly be beneficial to this continent, the Tokyo Olympic Games will be held in Japan, the host Japan team directly won a seat, which is equivalent to increasing the Number of Asian seats, this time it is the turn of Europe, the French women's volleyball team, although the strength can not enter the top 8 in Europe, still with the strength of the host to obtain qualification, the preliminary estimates of Serbia, Italy, Turkey, Russia 4 strong teams will have at least 3 teams to obtain Olympic qualifications, as the world's women's volleyball team is the strongest in Europe, It's no surprise that nearly half of the places are available.
And the level of Asian volleyball, in fact, in addition to the Chinese women's volleyball team alone, Japan, South Korea and Thailand are between Bo Zhong, the Concerns of the Asian Volleyball Federation come from the current status quo of the Chinese women's volleyball team There are many uncertainties, the Tokyo Olympic Games only achieved the 9th place, the results of the World Championships are unclear, if you can not qualify for the Olympic Qualification Tournament for the first time, then the only place in Asia will definitely fall into the hands of the World No. 3 Chinese Women's Volleyball Team, other teams will lose the opportunity to compete, if it is to take the way of the past failure to qualify, It is fairer to decide which team to go to Paris through the game, Japan, South Korea, Thailand may still have the opportunity to be upset, according to the world rankings, they even have no chance to upset.
Before the Olympic qualification tournament, I believe that Zhu Ting can definitely return, plus Zhang Changning, Li Yingying, Gong Xiangyu and other side attacks are still on the team, the previous 2 to get the Olympic qualification is not particularly difficult, the Chinese women's volleyball team still has this strength, after all, the Olympic qualification tournament is divided into 3 groups, can be with the Chinese women's volleyball team of Serbia, Italy, Turkey at most 1 team in the same group, according to the current world ranking of the top 2 in the United States and Brazil will not be the same group as the Chinese women's volleyball team.
The Olympic Games is not an ordinary world league, do not rule out the possibility that the Chinese women's volleyball team may lose the Olympic qualification tournament, but according to the Asian Volleyball Federation to take the way of the losing tournament to determine the quota in Asia, with the online strength of the Chinese women's volleyball team, it is not difficult to play Japan, South Korea and Thailand, it is likely to crush the momentum to win the Olympic ticket, which shows that the protest of the Asian Volleyball Federation is somewhat redundant, because whether from the world ranking, or the overall strength and state, the position of the Chinese women's volleyball team in Asia is difficult to be shaken.