At present, there are less than two days left before the Chinese women's volleyball team will appear in the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League, and the only goal of the Chinese women's volleyball team in this event is to get the ticket to the Paris Olympics, and Zhu Ting's return will definitely make this event highly concerned by many fans!
The three sub-stations of the World Women's Volleyball League are Rio de Janeiro, China, Macao, China, and Hong Kong, China, and the Chinese women's volleyball team is at home in the last two stops.
The four opponents of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the first stop of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil are South Korea, the United States, Canada, and Serbia, and the first game against South Korea will be played at 4:30 Beijing time on May 15. You must know that this is the last time the Chinese women's volleyball team appeared in an international competition, or in the Olympic women's volleyball qualifying tournament in September last year, and now after nearly 8 months, the Chinese women's volleyball team has once again appeared on the international stage, and how it will perform is highly anticipated!
The Chinese women's volleyball team set off in Beijing on May 7, and after a 30-hour long journey, arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on the evening of May 8, Beijing time, with a total of 16 athletes, namely:
Main attack: Zhang Changning, Li Yingying, Wu Mengjie, Wang Yizhu, Wang Yunrui;
Secondary attack: Yuan Xinyue, Wang Yuanyuan, Gao Yi, Wang Wenhan;
Answers: Gong Xiangyu, Zheng Yixin;
Second setter: Ding Xia, Diao Linyu, Xu Xiaoting;
Free man: Wang Mengjie, Ni Feifei
To sum up the above list, it is not difficult to see that the biggest change is the return of Zhang Changning, you must know that the last time Zhang Changning appeared in the national team, it was at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, and this World League is also the first time Zhang Changning came to the national team coached by Cai Bin, but the two are very familiar, after all, they are from the Jiangsu team.
As early as April 8, Zhu Ting publicly said that she wanted to return to the national team, and on May 10, Zhu Ting returned to her hometown Henan after ending the Italian Women's Volleyball League.
To sum up, it is not difficult to see that Zhu Ting will definitely return to the Chinese women's volleyball team in this World League! Looking at the four opponents of the Chinese women's volleyball team in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the United States and Serbia are traditional strong teams, but these two teams have already won the Olympic ticket, and the Brazilian station did not send the strongest team to participate, so the Chinese women's volleyball team has a great chance to win.
The South Korean team is the weakest, and it is not difficult to win, and the Canadian women's volleyball team must be prepared for difficulties, the women's volleyball Olympic qualifying match in September last year, when the Chinese women's volleyball team lost to the opponent with a score of 2-3, the loss of this game has also become an important reason why the Chinese women's volleyball team did not qualify for the Olympics for the first time.
In late February this year, the Chinese women's volleyball team began to prepare for the training camp, and now nearly 3 months have passed, and this World League is the time to test the training results of the Chinese women's volleyball team, to see if the Chinese women's volleyball team led by Cai Bin has made progress.
On May 12, local time, the Chinese women's volleyball team played a warm-up match with the host Brazilian women's volleyball team, and the Brazilian women's volleyball team defeated the Chinese women's volleyball team 3-0.
Although the win or loss of the warm-up match does not mean anything, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost all the first three games, and there must be some problems with the team. You must know that the Brazilian team has already won the ticket to the Paris Olympics, and in this case, they can't win a single game in the first three games, which does make many fans question Cai Bin to a certain extent.
However, this warm-up game has something to worry fans about, and it also brought some surprises to fans, that is, after Zhang Changning returned to the national team after 3 years, this warm-up match with the Brazilian team scored a team-high 17 points, such a performance really made many fans unbelievable, and it also confirmed that the current Zhang Changning is recovering very well, which is a great news for the Chinese women's volleyball team.
At present, there are still 5 seats left of the Paris Olympics women's volleyball qualification, and the Chinese women's volleyball team is ranked 6th in the world and the first in Asia.
If the Chinese women's volleyball team misses the Paris Olympics, Cai Bin's position will definitely not be kept, so the pressure on Cai Bin must be very great. Now that the World League is getting closer and closer, what kind of appearance will the Chinese women's volleyball team appear in this year's World League, and whether Cai Bin can surprise fans, we will wait and see!