In the history of the Olympic Games, the Chinese and American volleyball teams have always been in the same group.
However, since the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the first six Olympic group games in the 21st century, the Chinese women's volleyball team has only defeated United States 3-1 in the 2004 Athens Olympics.
That year, the Chinese women's volleyball team reached the top of the Olympics.
In the seventh Olympic Games of the 21st century, the Chinese women's volleyball team scored 3-2, and finally won another United States in Paris after 20 years.
Where to win?
The unexpected ease in the first two games is that Zhu Ting is more integrated into the team than in the women's volleyball league, with a pass and offense to increase the ceiling of the Chinese team, and her defensive ability and experience have greatly increased the ceiling of the Chinese team.
The secondary offensive line is still on the line, and the team has very few turnovers.
At the beginning of the third game, the United States team began to grasp the first pass that hit us, and there were many reasons for the collapse of the first pass, the most important thing is that we have always been in the habit of not moving our feet first, and our first pass is almost not good.
The libero also has no ability to extend the range of the ball to help a pass.
There was no pass on our powerful secondary offensive line on the verge of dumb fire, but today it was really Gong Xiangyu who held up the lower limit of the Chinese team, and then held up to Li Yingying's No. 4 offensive kaleidoscope that exploded in the tiebreaker, slashing 9 points in one game, an absolute superstar performance.
No matter how team the project is, it also needs the brilliance of the superstar moment, and this brilliance belongs to Li Yingying tonight.
But Coach Cai Bin did not make too many effective adjustments when he was shocked to the point that the first pass was immediate, and it is estimated that he will be put on the hot search by fans after the game.
In short, defeating the bitter masters of the 20-year Olympic Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team has made a good start, and volleyball fans should be happy.
The swimming pool is not so cool.
Here tonight, the Chinese team won two silver medals, and although they still missed the first gold medal in swimming at this Olympics, the two silver medals are different.
In the men's 100-meter backstroke, Xu Jiayu, who participated in the Olympic Games for the fourth time, has become the biggest favorite to win the championship after swimming a stunning 52.02 seconds in the semifinals, and tonight he also led the front 50 meters in the first 50 meters of the final.
But after turning around, it seems to be a copy of Qin Haiyang last night, and he has fallen to fourth at 75 meters.
But experience helped him, and in the last 15 meters he readjusted his sprint to win silver in 52.32 seconds.
The world record holder, Italy's Chekong, won the championship in 52.00 seconds, and Xu Jiayu had no regrets in front of this result.
After Rio, Xu Jiayu won his second Olympic silver medal, which is gratifying.
In contrast, Tang Qianting's originally stable gold medal turned into a silver medal at the last moment, which is a bit too pity.
Judging from this year's results, Tang Qianting's women's 100-meter breaststroke is the gold point in the Chinese team's plan.
Even yesterday, Qin Haiyang's poor state and Zhang Yufei's strong opponent were around, Tang Qianting was given the heavy responsibility of the first gold medal of the Chinese swimming team.
But South Africa's Smith, who won first in both the preliminaries and semifinals, has actually sounded a warning bell for us: this gold medal is not easy to win.
In the first half of today's final, even until the last 15 meters, Tang Qianting's advantage was very obvious.
She entered the sprint ahead of Smith by 0.4 meters, but it was the 15 meters that Smith used his incredible sprint ability to push the limits and snatch the gold medal away.
It's a pity, but Tang Qianting has already won her first Olympic medal at such a young age, and she will come again.
But when it comes to pity, the gymnastics hall today made the Chinese audience sigh even more.
The Chinese men's team has a clear advantage of 3.2 points in front of the last event.
However, in the final horizontal bar event, Su Weide made two major mistakes and dropped the bar twice, and the Chinese team was overtaken by Japan in points, and finally also won the silver medal.
The 28-year-old Xiao Ruoteng was supposed to participate in the Olympics for the last time, but the expected gold medal turned into a silver medal, and it would be fake to say that he had no regrets.
I'm more concerned about how Su Wei gets through the current hurdle.
The same story appeared on the shooting range in the morning, when "Sister Atiao" Huang Yuting made up the 1.3-ring disadvantage with the last two shots, and both set an Olympic record with her opponent and entered the extra gun in the same ring.
lost 0.1 rings in the final shootout and also won the silver medal.
Today's four silver medals in China are a pity, but the Chinese women's volleyball team's victory over the twenty-year bitter host United States, as well as the double gold start of "dry rice brother" Sheng Lihao, and the second gold medal of the diving dream team, are enough to soothe your regretful heart?
Tomorrow the Shatou combination will hit the first Olympic table tennis mixed doubles gold medal in Chinese history in the table tennis hall, and we will see you tomorrow.