Chao News client reporter Cao Linbo
The Paris Olympic women's basketball qualifying tournament is about to kick off, starting from February 8, the Chinese women's basketball team will compete with France, Puerto Rico and New Zealand in three games, striving to get the ticket to this year's Paris Olympics in one fell swoop.
According to the tournament schedule, the women's basketball qualifying tournament for the Paris Olympics is scheduled to be held from the 8th to the 11th of this month, and the 16 teams are divided into four regions: Xi'an, China, Antwerp, Belgium, Belém, Brazil, and Supran, Hungary. The Chinese women's basketball team will play a single round-robin match with New Zealand, France and Puerto Rico in Xi'an.
In the official social media content updated by FIBA recently, the power list of the women's basketball team participating in the Olympic Basketball Qualifying Tournament was announced, and the Chinese women's basketball team ranked second.
The United States is firmly at the top of the table, Belgium is in third, China's opponents in the same group are France, and the other two teams in the same group as China, Puerto Rico are ranked 11th and New Zealand are ranked 15th.
Previously, this season's WCBA ended the regular season in the last stage, and the Chinese women's basketball team trained and prepared for nearly a month in Qingyuan, Guangdong, and invited the Guangzhou youth team to compete and sparring, but the lineup was not neat- At the beginning of the training camp, Li Meng was recovering from injury, and did not practice with the team until the later stage, and Li Yueru, who went to the Turkish league to play, was absent from the entire training camp, on February 3, Li Yueru was still representing the Besiktas women's basketball team in the Turkish League, and after the game on the day, she flew straight to Xi'an to meet the team.
Yesterday, the Chinese basketball team officially released the list of 12 participants in the Chinese Women's Basketball Olympic Qualifying Tournament, and continued to use the runner-up team of the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup, Han Xu, Li Meng, Wang Siyu, Huang Sijing, Yang Liwei and other main players are all listed, national player Wu Tongtong returned after a year and a half of injury, and Luo Xinqi, a young player with 2023 Asian Cup experience, was also selected for the training list.
The specific list is as follows: (in no particular order)
Head Coach: Zheng Wei
Players: Li Yuan, Wang Siyu, Wu Tongtong, Yang Liwei, Yang Shuyu, Li Meng, Zhang Ru, Huang Sijing, Pan Zhenqi, Luo Xinqi, Li Yueru, Han Xu.
The schedule of the Chinese Women's Basketball Olympic Qualifying Tournament is as follows:
February 8, 2024 (Lunar Month 29) 19:00: China vs New Zealand
February 10, 2024 (Lunar New Year's Day) 16:30: France vs China
February 11, 2024 (the second day of the Lunar New Year) 19:00: Puerto Rico vs China
According to the rules of the qualifying round, the top two teams from the group other than the Paris hosts, France, will qualify for the Olympic Games. Therefore, this qualifying tournament has become a "ticket grabbing battle" for China, Puerto Rico, and New Zealand teams.
The three opponents in the same group in the qualifying round, the Chinese women's basketball team has played each other before. In the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup, the Chinese women's basketball team first defeated Puerto Rico 95-60 and defeated France 85-71 in the quarterfinals. During last year's Asian Cup, the Chinese women's basketball team defeated New Zealand 80-46. In addition, the three main players of the New Zealand women's basketball team are absent, and their strength has a great impact. Therefore, for the Chinese women's basketball team, it is not difficult to get a ticket to the Paris Olympics.
However, in the face of the upcoming game, coach Zheng Wei put his posture very low: "There are no weak teams participating in the qualifying round, so we have to adapt to the intensity of the international competition as soon as possible, both mentally and physically, we must be ready." Although we are ranked above our opponents, we have to be prepared in all aspects to play at our level. ”
This is the last women's international basketball tournament before the Paris Olympics, so the teams are taking it seriously, and even the United States, which has already qualified for the Paris Olympics through World Cup champions, has sent star players such as Taurethy and Stewart.
For the Chinese women's basketball team, this competition is also a key game for the team to run in.
(The picture is a data map on the official website of FIBA)
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