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Team record
Three-on-three basketball, or three-on-three basketball, is a common game for basketball fans and was included in the official competition of the Tokyo Olympics in 2017. The Chinese women's three-person basketball team has gained a lot since its inception, winning the gold medal at the Asian Games in Jakarta in 2018, winning the championship at the FIBA Three-Man Basketball World Cup in 2019, and on July 28, 2021, the Chinese women's three-person basketball team composed of Yang Shuyu, Zhang Zhiting, Wan Jiyuan and Wang Lili won the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
After winning the bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics, Yang Shuyu, Zhang Zhiting, Wan Jiyuan and Wang Lili, four members of the Chinese women's three-person basketball team, will form a women's three-person basketball team in the Olympic Joint Group to participate in the upcoming 14th National Games in Shaanxi and continue to fight side by side on the field.
The precious bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics is the third time that Chinese basketball has won a medal at the Olympic Games after the Bronze Medal of the Chinese Women's Basketball Team at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games and the Silver Medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games. In the hearts of the team members, this is also an opportunity to better popularize the promotion project and attract more people, especially teenagers, to pay attention to and participate in basketball. At the 14th National Games, they will continue to strive for this goal.
Train hard and go to the field
At the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, three-person basketball was included in the competition. In 2017, the International Olympic Committee announced that three-person basketball was included in the official competition of the Tokyo Olympic Games. At that time, 24-year-old Xinjiang team defender Wang Lili and 21-year-old Shanghai team center Zhang Zhiting had already competed in the China Women's Basketball League (WCBA), and Yang Shuyu and Wan Jiyuan, who were also 15 years old, stood out from their respective sports schools and began to represent the Chinese team in the Women's Basketball Asian Youth Championship.
In 2018, Zhang Zhiting turned to three-person basketball, "The game is very exciting, I enjoy the rhythm of this kind of game." "Compared with futsal basketball, three-player basketball has stronger physical confrontation, faster offensive and defensive transformation, and the 10-minute game is full of variables, and there is suspense in winning or losing until the last second."
In the 2018 Asian Games and the 2019 World Cup, the Chinese women's three-person basketball team has achieved good results. Since then, the team has made personnel adjustments, and Wang Lili, Yang Shuyu and Wan Jiyuan will enter the national training team in 2021. Wang Lili, who was selected for the WCBA All-Star team, encountered difficulties, she said: "At the beginning, our run-in was not very tacit, especially the timing and way of handling the blocking and dismantling cooperation were not decisive enough. ”
In order to improve agility and field movement speed, targeted training is essential. Taking the control of body fat rate as an example, the national training team will conduct a body fat rate ranking every week, and everyone will consciously control it, even when eating, they also bring small weighing instruments to estimate calories according to the weight of food to achieve fat loss effect.
After hard training, the Chinese women's three-person basketball team, which played in a new lineup, came to the Tokyo Olympic Games. The team members originally planned to buy the Olympic mascot as a souvenir, but Wang Lili said that if they got the medal, the mascot would be issued to the athletes as a prize, so they should "get it by strength". "Hearing this sentence, each of us has added a lot of energy in our hearts." Yang Shuyu said.
Unity and cooperation to achieve good results
In the women's three-person basketball group round robin stage of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese team won 5 wins and 2 losses, successfully advanced to the knockout round, and defeated the Italian team in the quarterfinals. The semi-finals and finals were played on the same day, and after losing to their opponents in the semi-finals, there was only 4 hours to adjust to the bronze medal battle.
Coach Xu Jiamin said that this is the most memorable part of the Tokyo Olympic games. Worried that the morale, emotions and physical condition of the players would be affected by the loss of the semi-finals, Xu Jiamin encouraged everyone: "This is an important game in your life. Now we are only one step away from the podium, we need to get back up and fight on the field. "The Olympics are the first time the new squad has competed in an international competition, and the coach's words have given the players confidence.
In the bronze medal battle, when the victory was locked, the 4 Chinese girls hugged each other tightly and shed tears of excitement. "The picture of 4 people standing on the podium hand in hand, I will remember for the rest of my life." Zhang Zhiting said.
During the preparation for the Olympic Games, Wan Jiyuan had a small injury to his shoulder, and he would suddenly lose his strength when doing confrontational actions, and after the careful treatment of the team doctor and the targeted training of the physical coach, Wan Jiyuan's shoulder injury quickly improved. "Thank you very much to the coaches and the support staff, because of their silent efforts, we can show ourselves in the Olympic arena, thank you very much to everyone who helped us." Wan Jiyuan said.
Seize the opportunity to promote the project
The excellent performance of the Chinese women's three-person basketball team has excited the fans. Chai Wensheng, director of the National Team Management Department of the Chinese Basketball Association, said: "I hope to take this as an opportunity to promote the development of the project, cultivate more reserve talents, and achieve better results in future competitions." ”
From street sports to the Olympic arena, from niche events to public attention, China's three-person basketball sport has developed rapidly in recent years. Xu Jiamin said: "We have organized outstanding players from all over the world to participate in international competitions, and we have also followed this idea in the preparation for the Olympic Games, integrating the healthy competition within the team into conventional preparations and enriching the basis for material selection." ”
After being included in the official olympic competition in 2017, three-person basketball also became the official competition of the 13th National Games held in Tianjin that year. Since then, the Chinese three-on-three basketball league and the "I want to go to the Olympics" national three-person basketball tournament sponsored by the Chinese Basketball Association have also entered the fast lane of development, with teams from about 150 cities in China participating in the competition, and the champion team also represented the Chinese team in international competitions such as the Asian Games.
On September 15th, the 14th National Games will open in Shaanxi, and Yang Shuyu, Zhang Zhiting, Wan Jiyuan and Wang Lili will participate in the competition under the name of the Olympic joint women's three-person basketball team. Wang Lili said that she was deeply impressed by the Olympic trip, and the upcoming journey of the National Games pinned a lot of expectations on her. She wants to say to people who love three-person basketball: "I hope that everyone will continue to love and pay attention to three-person basketball, and I believe that the future of Chinese three-person basketball will be better and better." ”
People's Daily (2021-09-13 15th edition)