The 2024 Women's Volleyball World League Turkey ended with two matches. In the first battle to defend the Olympic quota, the Dutch team tried their best, but still lost 0-3 to Poland. With the sweep of Swallow Egg, the Netherlands also fell to 11th in the world rankings, while Canada rose to 10th in the world.
In this campaign, both sides sent an all-main lineup. The Netherlands led the way with Bouygis, Jasper and Platk, while Poland saw Stishak and Lukasik in the field. The Netherlands only posed a certain threat to Poland in the second game, and the initiative was firmly in the hands of Poland in the remaining two games, 20-25, 24-26, 18-25.
From the point of view of technical statistics, the Netherlands mainly lost in the attacking area, blocking the net, serving and their own mistakes, and the performance of both sides was almost the same. The Dutch attacker simply couldn't break through Poland's high block, especially in the strong receiver Platk, who only hit 4 of 11 shots, and as a player who didn't take a pass, such an inefficient smash was obviously not qualified. When the No. 2 doesn't get off the ball, the offensive pressure on the whole team is focused on Buigis and Jasper.
Buigis was blocked with 5 errors on 16-of-37 shooting, and scored a game-high 18 points with 1 block and 1 shot; Jasper was blocked 2 of 21 shots and 9 shots, and scored 12 points with 2 blocks and 1 shot; The Polish women's volleyball team Stishak scored 16 points with 37 deductions, 16 shots, 1 turnover, and 3 blocks, Lukasik scored 16 points with 32 deductions, 15 shots and 1 block, Mydrik scored 12 points with 2 shots and 10 shots from 2 shots, and Korneruk scored 11 points with 8 deductions, 6 shots, and 5 blocks.
After the 0-3 defeat, the world points of the Dutch women's volleyball team were deducted by 7.12 points, and the total score became 282.19 points, which was surpassed by the Canadian women's volleyball team with 286.92 points. According to the current rules for qualifying for the Olympic quotas, the Netherlands and Canada can only be qualified by the world rankings, and the remaining five quota places will be allocated to one each from the Asian zone and the African zone, so there are only three quota places left for the Netherlands, Canada and Italy.
The world's top five teams Turkey, Brazil, Poland, Serbia and the United States have all qualified, while the ninth-placed Dominican Republic has also advanced, leaving sixth-ranked Italy, seventh-ranked China, eighth-ranked Japan, tenth-ranked Canada and eleventh-ranked Netherlands remaining in the top 11. China and Japan will battle it out for places in the Asian zone first, with the losers competing against Italy, Canada and the Netherlands.
For the Netherlands and Canada, whether China gets the Asian ticket or Japan gets the Asian ticket, it doesn't have much to do with them, and whoever finishes 10th after the World League will get the Paris Olympics. Therefore, now the Netherlands has dropped out of the Olympic quota after being deducted 7.12 points, and Canada has taken its place, but in the end, it will depend on the competition and competition between the two teams.
In the other match, the French women's volleyball team, the host of the Paris Olympics, won three games in a row after losing one game first, defeated Bulgaria 3-1 to get the first victory, 19-25/25-21/25-11/29-27. It is worth mentioning that this is the first time that the French women's volleyball team has participated in the World League, and this victory is also the first victory in their World League history, with France receiving 20 points from Ghiqueir; Bulgaria lost all four games, and received 23 points from Dudova.