The 2024 Paris Olympics continues, for the Chinese delegation, many events have excellent performances and won countless golds, but the three major balls of the collective event, only the Chinese women's basketball team and women's volleyball team have entered the Paris Olympics, women's football, men's football, men's volleyball, and men's basketball have all missed the Paris Olympics, so the expectations of 1.4 billion Chinese people for the Chinese women's basketball team and the Chinese women's volleyball team are very large. At 23 o'clock on the evening of August 4, Beijing time, in a key match in the final round of the Olympic women's volleyball group A, the Chinese women's volleyball team will face the world champion Serbia women's volleyball team, and CCTV5 will broadcast the game live.
The Chinese women's volleyball team is ranked 5th in the world, in the history of the Olympic Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team has won the championship 3 times, and there is a runner-up and 2 third places, 6 times on the podium of the Olympic Games, is the most brilliant team in China's three major balls, the Chinese women's volleyball team also has 4 World Cup championships and 2 World Championship championships. However, at the last Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese women's volleyball team suffered Waterloo and failed to qualify from the group, setting the worst record since participating in the Olympic Games.
After the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese women's volleyball team underwent drastic changes, coach Lang Ping left his post gloomily, and the main attacker Zhu Ting went to Europe to play, and the Chinese women's volleyball team ushered in a reconstruction. After Cai Bin took office, his form in the Paris Olympic cycle fluctuated greatly, and he was able to win the runner-up of the World Women's Volleyball League and lose in the Olympic qualifiers. In this year's World Women's Volleyball League, Cai Bin had to re-recruit Zhu Ting into the national team to improve the strength of the squad, and finally the Chinese women's volleyball team successfully won the ticket to the Paris Olympics.
During the draw of the women's volleyball group at the Paris Olympics, the Chinese women's volleyball team was in the same group as the defending champion United States women's volleyball team, the two-time world champion Serbia women's volleyball team, and the host France women's volleyball team. In the first round of the group stage, the Chinese women's volleyball team encountered the old rival United States women's volleyball team, in the past 10 Olympic Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team has been in the same group with the United States women's volleyball team 9 times, and before the Paris Olympics, the Chinese women's volleyball team faced the United States women's volleyball team in the Olympic Games suffered four consecutive defeats, however, the Chinese women's volleyball team's first appearance at the Paris Olympics made fans shine.
The Chinese women's volleyball team sent Zhu Ting, Li Yingying two major attackers, the first two games to play the United States women's volleyball team can not find the north, although the United States women's volleyball team through adjustment, destroyed the Chinese women's volleyball team's pass, caused the Chinese team's turmoil, and took advantage of the chaos to win 2 games in a row to equalize the score, but in the final game, the Chinese women's volleyball team withstood the pressure, overturned the United States women's volleyball team, ended the 4 consecutive wins against the United States women's volleyball team, grew a bad breath, and made a good start.
Serbia is the runner-up of the Rio Olympics and the third place of the Tokyo Olympics, is a traditional powerhouse in the European volleyball world, the first round of the group stage of this Olympic Games, Serbia won 3 straight games against the host France women's volleyball team, the second round faced the United States women's volleyball team, Serbia was in no state in the first two games, losing in a row, although the 3rd and 4th games pulled back two games, but lost by 2 points in the deciding game, and the first two group games were one win and one loss accumulated 4 points.
The Chinese women's volleyball team has had many confrontations with Serbia, in the final of the Rio Olympics, Lang Ping led the Chinese women's volleyball team to defeat Serbia to win the gold medal, and in this year's World Women's Volleyball League, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the Serbia women's volleyball team 3-1. The recent results of the Serbia women's volleyball team are not ideal, with more losses and fewer wins. For the Chinese women's volleyball team in this game, the main goal is to score all three points and then get a good ranking in the top 8.
The Paris Olympics reformed the women's volleyball competition, with 12 teams divided into three groups of four teams each, with the top two teams in the group and the two best teams finishing third in the group advancing to the quarterfinals. After reaching the quarterfinals, the 8 teams that advance will be re-ranked according to their results in the group stage, and the rules for the quarter-finals are that the 1st ranked team will play the 8th ranked team, the 2nd ranked team will play 7th, the 3rd and 6th ranked teams will play each other, and the 4th and 5th ranked teams will play each other.