With less than 100 days to go before the Paris Olympics, the Chinese women's basketball team is about to start a training camp, and the Basketball Association officially announced a 17-member squad, of which many players from the WCBA club Sichuan and Inner Mongolia have been selected. The specific selected personnel include Wang Siyu, Han Xu, Li Meng, Tang Ziting (Sichuan), Li Yuan, Pan Zhenqi, Zhang Ru, Sun Mengran (Inner Mongolia), Huang Sijing, Yang Liwei, Yang Shuyu (Guangdong), Luo Xinqi, Jin Weina (Jiangsu), Zheng Ming, Tang Yu (Beijing), Wu Tongtong (Shanxi), Li Yueru (Los Angeles Sparks)
Among the total 17 players, 3 have WNBA resumes, specifically Li Meng, Han Xu and Li Yueru, among which Li Meng and Han Xu took the initiative to give up the WNBA in the new season in order to prepare for the Olympic Games of the Chinese women's basketball team, while Li Yueru rushed to Los Angeles to report, wanting to fight for the opportunity to gain a foothold in the WNBA. The 17-man squad brings together some of the best players currently in the hunt for an Olympic medal.
In addition to the players, the list of personnel released by the Basketball Association this time also includes specific candidates such as coaching staff and team leader, which is still led by Zheng Wei, and the team leader is Wang Fang, a senior member of the Basketball Association, who also served as the team leader to lead the Chinese women's basketball team in the 2022 World Cup.
It is worth mentioning that Wang Fang also has a layer of identity as the mother of the men's basketball national player Zhang Zhenlin, as a famous women's basketball player, Wang Fang and her son have always insisted on contributing to Chinese basketball, she was a national player when she was a player, and helped the Chinese women's basketball team win the world runner-up and Olympic silver medal, and her son Zhang Zhenlin is already a top CBA forward, has been selected for the national team many times, and has also played in the World Cup. Looking forward to Wang Fang leading the Chinese women's basketball team to achieve good results again.
The Chinese women's basketball team's training camp is still in a closed form, due to the defeat of the Chinese women's basketball team to France when the Olympic qualifying match was lost, for this reason the Basketball Association arranged a lot of high-quality warm-up games for the team, and after the closed training camp in China, the Chinese women's basketball team will go to Europe to play warm-up games, against a number of Olympic-level players, and strive to adapt to the strong teams of the world's strong teams in advance.
Although ranked second in the world, the Chinese women's basketball team still can't take it lightly in the Paris Olympics, the United States women's basketball team is still the most powerful opponent, while the French women's basketball team, the Spanish women's basketball team and the Australian women's basketball team are strong opponents, the Chinese women's basketball team must beat two of these three strong teams if they want to enter the top three, which is very difficult. The Chinese men's basketball team missed the Paris Olympics early, and the Chinese women's basketball team is the face of Chinese basketball, looking forward to their good results!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)