On April 9, Beijing time, the German Table Tennis Association announced the list of nominees for the German team for the Paris Olympics, which was submitted to the German Olympic Sports Federation, and the final list will be officially announced in May. Boll and Han Ying, two veterans of the German men's and women's teams, who are over 40 years old, were both selected. Francesca, who has been in excellent form recently, was not selected and was only arranged as a P card.
The list of German teams nominated by the German Table Tennis Association for the Paris Olympics is as follows:
【Women's Singles】
Han Ying, Nina Mittram
【Men's Singles】
Qiu Dang, Dimitri Ocharov
【Mixed Doubles】
Nina Mittram/Qiu Dang
【Girl Group】
Han Ying, Nina Mittram, Shan Xiaona
P card: TBD
【Men's Group】
Qiu Dang, Ocharov, Pol
P-card: Francesca
There are several special features of the German team's Olympic squad:
1, Han Ying was shortlisted as a first sister without suspense in the process of serious injury rehabilitation, reflecting the importance that the German Table Tennis Association attaches to Han Ying. Han Ying was playing against Tian Zhixi in the Doha Star Challenge in January this year when she stepped on a foreign object in the stadium and slipped and ruptured her Achilles tendon. Han Ying, who has undergone major rehabilitation surgery, has now returned to the period of full-body strength training, and is expected to enter the ball training soon, and there should be no problem in fully recovering her physical function before Ba'o. It is that the competition has been absent in the past six months, which will inevitably affect Han Ying's game reserves, and I don't know what kind of adjustments she can complete at that time.
2, Bol squeezed out Francesca to enter the team lineup, which is both gratifying and regretful. After all, Xiaofu has been in very good shape recently, and he is the best doubles physique of the German men's team, so it is a pity that he cannot enter the team lineup. And Uncle Bo's appearance on the Olympic stage again is the result of the people's aspirations, and it is also a special reward for Bol by the German Table Tennis Association. This will be Bol's seventh Olympic appearance, which is quite an astonishing achievement!
3. Francesca was born in 1992, and if he is confirmed to be the P card, he will become the oldest P card in the history of Olympic table tennis at the age of 32. Xiaofu's age is not too old in the German table tennis team, and all German table tennis players seem to have eaten evergreen seeds, and high age has never been an effective blocking condition.
4, the German women's team P card dystocia, not overcrowded, but unsuccessful, fell into the embarrassment of breaking the pulse. There is a shortage of coaching resources in German table tennis, resulting in a very incomplete youth training system.