Four consecutive defeats! With the worst record in the history of the National League, can the Chinese women's volleyball team achieve the goal of the Paris Olympics?

Losing 2:3 to the Dominican team, the Chinese women's volleyball team suffered four consecutive defeats in the 2023 National Women's Volleyball League. From all victories in the first 6 rounds to all defeats in the last 4 rounds, the Chinese women's volleyball team has suffered a rollercoaster experience during this period, with 4 consecutive defeats, making the team led by Cai Bin face the biggest crisis of trust since the establishment of the team. A year later at the Paris Olympics, does this team really have the strength to rush gold?

In the first 6 rounds of this National League, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated Brazil, the Netherlands, Japan and other teams, and won a lot of applause for a while. Detailed people should be able to see that the opponents of the Chinese women's volleyball team in those rounds of the competition were limited, even the World Championship runner-up Brazil, when they played against the Chinese team, it was only a residual team. In recent rounds, with the increase in the number of battles with strong teams in Europe and the United States, and the gradual strengthening of some teams' lineups, the Chinese women's volleyball team has lost four consecutive games under the two major backgrounds, and the ranking of the sub-tournament has fallen from second in the sixth round to sixth at present.

Since the establishment of the National Women's Volleyball League, the Chinese women's volleyball team has twice suffered four consecutive defeats, the last time appearing in the 2021 league. The difference is that two years ago, the Chinese women's volleyball team encountered this embarrassment in the case of non-main team, and the Chinese women's volleyball team lost 2:3, 0:3, 2:3, 1:3 to Canada, Turkey, Belgium and Serbia in the 5th to 8th rounds, when Zhu Ting, Yuan Xinyue, Ding Xia, Gong Xiangyu, Yan Ni, Li Yingying were absent from many main players, and only Zhang Changning was the main player in the starting lineup, and the non-main team was the main factor for the Chinese women's volleyball team to suffer four consecutive losses.

Unlike last time, the Chinese women's volleyball team competing in this year's National League only lacks Zhu Ting 1 main player, even considering Zhu Ting's central role in the team, but the current Chinese women's volleyball team after all has Olympic champions Yuan Xinyue, Gong Xiangyu and Li Yingying, Wang Yuanyuan and other World Cup champions, in the case of the quasi-main team out of 4 consecutive losses, can only show that the Chinese women's volleyball team has reached a dangerous moment.

In the next round, the Chinese women's volleyball team will meet the host South Korean team. At present, the South Korean team is also in a trough, the first 10 rounds of record are all lost, with the comprehensive strength and online advantage of the Chinese women's volleyball team, it is likely to avoid the doom of five consecutive defeats, but the problems currently encountered by the Chinese women's volleyball team are difficult to solve in a short time.

At the Tokyo Olympics more than a year ago, the Chinese women's volleyball team stopped at the group stage, and the Olympic record hit a record low. The goal of this year's Chinese women's volleyball team is to compete for the gold medal at the Paris Olympics.

As a reminder, the Chinese women's volleyball team has never suffered two consecutive heavy losses in the same competition in history, with the current situation of Cai Bin and his players, it is really difficult to avoid this bad luck in next year's Paris Olympics, and the historical trajectory will really favor this women's volleyball team? (Wang Quanli)