Explain in detail why the Chinese men's basketball team did not lose the Olympic Games? Satirize! Bahrain, with a population of 1.5 million, qualifies

After losing to the Philippines in the World Cup finale, the Chinese men's basketball team did not even qualify for the Olympic Games. So, what qualifies for the Olympic Games? How did the Chinese men's basketball team lose the qualification?

First of all, it should be noted that the qualification for the Olympic men's basketball team has been changing over the years with the reform of FIBA. Taking the 2016, 2020 and 2024 Olympic Trials as an example, the eligibility for these three competitions is constantly changing.

In 2016, Olympic qualification was still determined by the respective championships of the five continents, so the Olympic Games were also divided according to the five continents. In addition to the three countries that failed to host the Olympic Games, the other 15 places are classified as Africa (3), the Americas (3), Asia (3), Europe (5), and Oceania (1), and the participating teams have the best records in the tournaments on all continents that did not make it to the Olympics.

In 2019, as FIBA reformed the World Championship, renamed the World Championship the World Championship, and let the World Cup directly produce 7 Olympic places (excluding the automatic quota of Olympic hosts), rather than relying on continental championships to determine (the purpose was to allow the big American stars to participate in the World Cup, but the results were unsatisfactory), the qualification for the Olympic Lost Tournament also changed.

This time, FIBA asked the 2019 World Cup not to go straight to the 16 teams with the best Olympic records, plus Asia (and Oceania), Africa, the Americas and Europe, the two teams with the highest rankings on the FIBA Power Rankings, a total of 8 teams.

This year, FIBA has reformed the Olympic Games in order to expand its influence. In the end, the 40 teams that did not qualify for the 2023 Basketball World Cup (8 in Africa, 8 in the Americas, 8 in Asia and 16 in Europe) participated in the qualifiers of the losing tournament, and the criteria for the selection of these 40 teams were to enter the second round of the World Cup qualifiers on all continents, and the second was to require the team with the highest strength ranking on all continents if they did not enter the second round.

In the end, five teams, Bahrain (Asia), Cameroon (Africa), Bahamas (Americas), Poland (Europe) and Croatia (Europe), broke through from these 40 teams and won five places to participate in the 2024 Olympic Games.

In addition, 19 teams competing in the 2023 Basketball World Cup will qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games. The specific criteria are that among the teams in Africa, the Americas and Asia that do not have direct access to the Olympic Games, the team with the highest ranking on their respective continents (a total of 3 places), and the other 16 places are allocated to the teams that do not have direct access to the Olympic Games and the World Cup results are directly ranked in the bottom 16 of the Olympic teams.

Since the World Cup produces 7 Olympic places, the host automatically qualifies for the Olympic Games, so according to the above conditions, if the Chinese men's basketball team wants to participate in the 2024 Olympic Games, it will either become the second best team in Asia or become the top 27 team in the 2023 World Cup.

The Chinese men's basketball team finally ranked 29th in the 2023 Basketball World Cup, and it was not the second best team in Asia, so the Chinese men's basketball team ultimately missed next year's Olympic Games. Similarly, there is Cape Verde, who is ranked 28th in the World Cup and is not the second best team in Africa, so they also missed the Olympic qualifiers.

Ironically, FIBA reforms for reform's sake. As a result, Bahrain was the sole qualified player in the Asian zone of the qualifiers for the Olympic Games. Due to the location in Damascus, Syria, South Korea's and Taiwan's teams both withdrew early, and the only teams participating were Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, India, Kazakhstan, Indonesia and Syria. Bahrain, with a population of 1.5 million, emerged as the winner.

Missing the Olympic Games next year has made the Chinese men's basketball team lose an opportunity to train troops. But for the Chinese men's basketball team, which is already terminally ill, missing this game does not necessarily mean a huge loss. After all, the Chinese team has not been as good as before, instead of being beaten repeatedly in the world competition, it is better to think about countermeasures in advance, save time to participate and be criticized by various words. Two years ago, although we participated in the Olympic Games, the final gains were not great, and among the young players who did not represent the national team in international competitions (excluding the World Preliminary Round), only Hu Mingxuan and Zhang Zhenlin were selected for this year's national team.