In the early morning of May 17, in the first week of the 2024 World Women's Volleyball League in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Chinese women's volleyball team encountered a strong opponent, the world's second-ranked American women's volleyball team. Although the Chinese women's volleyball team lost the first game, it won three games in a row, and finally completed the reversal with a big score of 3-1 and won two consecutive victories. With a score of 9.13, the Chinese women's volleyball team has risen two places to fifth in the world, ranking first among several teams competing for the qualification of the Paris Olympics, which can be said to be one step closer to the qualification of the Paris Olympics.
In order to qualify for the Paris Olympics, the Chinese women's volleyball team attaches great importance to this year's World Women's Volleyball League, and the final Olympic quota will be determined after a total of 12 games in three weeks. As long as the Chinese women's volleyball team can stabilize in the top eight positions, it can basically lock the seats. In the first week of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Chinese team played against South Korea, the United States, Canada and Serbia. The United States and Serbia are both ranked higher than China and have already qualified for the Olympics, so China will have to go all out to win and earn high points against them in order to help improve their world rankings.
In the first matchup, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the now mediocre South Korean team 3-0, and got off to a good start, without much increase in points. The showdown with the U.S. women's volleyball team in the early hours of this morning can be described as a contest between the weak and the strong, although the U.S. women's volleyball team did not participate in the main force, but it is still not to be underestimated. In the first game, the U.S. team made a late effort and took the next game 25-23; In the second game, the Chinese team quickly adjusted, completed the overtake in the backward situation, and reversed 25-23, and in the next two games, the women's volleyball players who played more and more smoothly won two more games 25-22 and 25-19, and finally completed the reversal with a big score of 3-1 and won two consecutive victories.
In this game, several main players of the Chinese women's volleyball team are still online, the main attack Li Yingying once again contributed a game-high 20 points, and the secondary attack Wang Yuanyuan scored 18 points, including 8 offensive scores, 8 blocking points and 2 service points. Wang Yuanyuan's forward offense and defense put a lot of pressure on the American team, especially blocking the net, which can be called the mobile Great Wall of the Chinese women's volleyball team. In this game, Wang Yuanyuan's performance can be described as a well-deserved world-class secondary offensive performance. In addition, Gong Xiangyu also scored 16 points, and the captain Yuan Xinyue scored 14 points. Substitute main attacker Wang Yunrui also had 7 points.
With the Chinese women's volleyball team defeating the United States women's volleyball team 3-1 and scoring 9.13 points, the instant world ranking rose from seventh before the game to fifth, surpassing the Polish women's volleyball team and the Italian women's volleyball team. At present, the Canadian women's volleyball team, which is ahead of the fifth place in Olympic qualification (the top four have qualified for the Olympics), has as many as 63.8 points, and the advantage is still relatively obvious. In addition, at 4:30 a.m. tomorrow, the Chinese women's volleyball team will have a direct dialogue with the Canadian women's volleyball team, and the result of this game will further affect the situation of impacting the Olympic qualification.