Sports fans who pay attention to this National Games may find that the "Olympic United Team" in this competition appears frequently. What is the "Olympic United Team"? Why do I appear in the National Games on a provincial basis?
The "united team" is the national team
As the name suggests, the Olympic joint team refers to the national team or combination that has just participated in the Tokyo Olympic Games, which is also the first time in the history of the National Games that the "Olympic United Team" has appeared in the form of participation. In other words, there will be many national teams or national brand combinations participating in this National Games.
Hearing this, there may be some elderly football fans who remember the strange operation of the national team to participate in the league. In 1988, the Second Chinese Men's Football Team led by Xu Genbao began to participate in the National First Division League to train the team. In 2018, the proposal of the national training team to participate in the Chinese Super League was mentioned again, but in the end it was not realized because the opposition was too loud.
Driving backwards? In fact, it was a last resort
Did the National Games also start to engage in national teams vs local teams? Could it be that the National Games are also reversing?
If you arbitrarily think so, you may have some wrongs for the National Games and the State General Administration of Sports. The participation of the large-scale national team in the National Games is actually more of a last resort.
Due to the epidemic, the Tokyo Olympics, which were scheduled to be held in the summer of 2020, have been postponed for one year to July and August this year. For the first time in history, the Olympic Games and the National Games were held in the same year, and the interval between the two events was less than 40 days. Athletes return home to go through 21 days of quarantine, so team events simply don't have time for provincial teams to run in with Olympians.
The women's national basketball team won the championship without suspense
As a result, the national team's participation in the Olympic Games and the preparation of local teams for the National Games are bound to produce irreconcilable conflicts.
In response to this thorny problem, a new policy implemented at the last National Games provided a reference plan for solving this problem. Four years ago, the Tianjin National Games launched a new measure to allow some projects with less than 4 people (including 4 people) to form teams across units, covering 49 sub-events in 10 major events such as cycling and rowing. This policy encourages outstanding athletes from local teams to "join forces", and after the joint team participates in the medal, all local teams that contribute athletes can "share the benefits" and count each into 1 medal.
In this Year's Shaanxi National Games, in order to take into account the interests of the national team and local teams, for the collective events of the Tokyo Olympic Games, especially the large ball team projects, most of the members of the national team formed the form of "Olympic Joint Team". Once the "Olympic United Team" wins the National Games, the athletes' units will share the gold medal: the transport of one player will be counted as a gold medal, and the number of gold medals assigned to each transport unit in the same event will not exceed two.
There are also many "sequelae"
Of course, the national team's large-scale participation in the National Games has also brought some "sequelae".
The first is that the suspense and ornamentality of the game are greatly reduced. Take the final of the women's basketball adult group of the National Games that just ended on the evening of September 14, the Olympic united team defeated jiangsu team 100:52 and easily won the championship. In this National Games competition, the "United Team" won 5 games and won 260 points in total! Win an average of 52 points per game! The Jiangsu team, which ranked second in net win points and won the silver medal, accumulated only 47 points against the opponent, and only won an average of 9.4 points per game.
Judging from the specific competition process, the strength of other participating women's basketball teams and the Olympic joint team is not at the same level. The Olympic team participated in three group matches against Guangdong, Beijing and Sichuan, and they won 59 points, 46 points and 71 points respectively. All three games were not over half-time and had already entered "garbage time", against Guangdong in the second quarter 29:3 to break the opponent, against Beijing in the second quarter to play a 24:6 offensive, against Sichuan in the first quarter to establish a victory of 31:9.
Jiangsu simply could not compete with the national team
Is this fair? It's so boring! After the successive victories of the Olympic joint team, many netizens issued such questions and discussions. Some netizens even issued such an exclamation: "This may be the first time in my life that I hope that the Chinese team will lose the game."
In addition, for some athletes who were not selected for the national team, the intervention of the united team completely shattered their gold medal dreams. For example, the Guangdong women's basketball team, they sent huang Sijing, Li Yueru, Yang Liwei three players to the national team, all three of them are the main force of the Chinese women's basketball team, especially Li Yueru and Yang Liwei can be called "thighs". If these three return to the provincial team, then Guangdong will most likely win the women's basketball gold medal. Now, the Guangdong team, which lost three main players, finally tried its best and only won the bronze medal. Is this fair to the rest of the Players in Guangdong?
The culprit of the chinese women's football team's rout?
The above examples are only the appearance of the "sequelae" of the national team's participation in the National Games, in fact, what is more frightening is the "black box operation" that brought the gold medal of the National Games.
As we all know, participating in the National Games as a national team is basically equivalent to ensuring a gold medal. Moreover, the National Games stipulate that the units of the national team athletes will share the gold medal: the transport of one player will be counted as a gold medal, and the number of gold medals assigned to each transport unit in the same event will not exceed two. This brings a strange phenomenon: some national teams, although they have no hope of winning gold at the Olympics, are tightly placed, and the provinces are crowded to install players. There is no reason for him - there is no Olympic gold medal, but the national sports gold medal is guaranteed.
Jia Xiuquan
Take the Chinese women's football team as an example, the Chinese women's football team suffered an unprecedented rout at the Tokyo Olympics, not only did not win one of the three group matches, but also scored 6 goals but conceded 17 goals. In fact, as early as the women's football team announced the Olympic list, everyone was surprised to find that many of the absolute main players of the team were actually selected, including Tang Jiali in the front court, Ma Jun in the midfield, and Lou Jiahui on the defender line. Instead, 5 of the 22-man squad made 0 appearances in international A-class tournaments!
After the Olympic Games, the Sports Weekly newspaper wrote in the article "Women's Football Olympic Downturn, Can't Just Blame Jia Xiuquan?" It said that the real culprit of the scourge of women's football is the policy of the "Olympic United Team" to compete in the National Games. For example, the biggest beneficiary of this new policy should be Jilin, because the Jilin women's football team did not enter the final of the women's football adult group of the National Games, but because there were exactly two players selected for the national Olympic team, Jilin was equivalent to having locked the gold medal of the women's football team of the National Games. Among the 5 players who have made 0 appearances in international A-class competitions, jilin players are included.
After understanding the entanglement of interests, it is not difficult to understand the various anecdotes surrounding this Chinese women's football team. For example, the idea that the Olympic military training is a national fortune is contrary to common sense, but it is a big truth. When provinces and cities participate in the game of women's football national Olympic list, as long as they can stuff their own people into it. The list of such a game, of course, can not be the strongest Chinese women's football team, it can only be a training.
Coincidentally, in the men's three-ball event, the only three-a-side basketball to reach the Tokyo Olympics, the list of personnel is also "a chicken feather". Zhao Lizhou and Zheng Yi, who had worked hard to qualify for the Olympic Games for the Chinese team, ultimately failed to qualify for the Olympics, and were replaced by CBA players such as Gao Shiyan. Su Qun, a well-known basketball media person, broke the news that the Chinese Basketball Association was also reported for this. In the end, the Chinese men's three-person basketball won 2 wins and 5 losses, and there was no suspense at the bottom of the group.
For a project that is impossible to compete for a medal in the Olympic Games, it is to the point that the Chinese Basketball Association has been reported, and the reason for this is self-evident. Yangzi Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter Tang Min
Proofread by Xu Heng
Source: Purple Cow News