On the 13th match day of the Paris Olympics, the semifinals of the women's volleyball team, the United States women's volleyball team played against the Brazil women's volleyball team. The match was intense, with Brazil, the favourites to win the title, losing the first game 23-25 and adjusting to play a good offensive and defensive performance in the second game to win 25-18. However, in the third game, the Brazil women's volleyball team was defeated, and the United States women's volleyball team easily won 25-15, leading 2-1, and then the Brazil women's volleyball team withstood at the critical moment, winning the fourth game 25-23, and the big score came to 2-2. In the tiebreaker, the United States women's volleyball team was in the lead, and the Brazil team struggled to chase the points, but in the end they still lost 11-15 and were eliminated 2-3.
Brazil missed the final, which is really unexpected, the first favorite to win the championship is out early, but the Brazil women's volleyball team should eventually win the bronze medal, after all, the strength is really strong. The United States women's volleyball team also lost 2-3 to the Chinese women's volleyball team in the group stage, so it seems that the Chinese women's volleyball team is indeed a pity, the state has been adjusted to the best, can compete with the world's first-class teams, but in the round of 8, lost to Turkey 2-3, and in the tiebreaker, the referee's decision also directly changed the trend of the game, Turkey hit the ball over the net, but the referee ruled that the attack was effective, which made people speechless, which was an obvious misjudgment.
The Chinese women's volleyball team almost reached the top 4, referring to the match between Brazil and the United States team, the Chinese women's volleyball team may even go further, and it is not impossible to win the championship, after all, the top 8 teams except for the Dominican Republic, the other 7 teams have little difference in strength, mainly depending on the on-the-spot performance. The Chinese women's volleyball team could have achieved better results, but it had no choice but not to enter the top 4, but no fan would blame the women's volleyball team, after all, the athletes did their best, but they lacked a little luck. Coach Cai Bin also received more recognition, and he called a timeout in the game in a timely manner, at least to score a passing grade. The Chinese women's volleyball team has returned to the motherland, and the players have also taken a group photo, and then there will be a period of vacation, and everyone can return to their hometown to visit their relatives.
Since the Chinese team is competing with the United States team for the first position in the gold medal table, the United States women's volleyball team reached the final this time, which is actually unfavorable news for the Chinese team, because the United States has another Olympic gold point. As of press time, the Chinese team has surpassed United States to re-rank first after winning consecutive gold medals, and the total number of medals has exceeded 70, which is very hopeful of surpassing the results of the Tokyo Olympics. The United States team is in 2nd place for the time being.
However, from the distribution of gold points between the Chinese team and the United States team in the next 3 days, the Chinese team still has an advantage, because we have more than 10 gold points, including the national table tennis men's team and women's team, there is no problem with these 2 gold medals, the diving team has 2 competitions next, and there is certainly no suspense in winning the championship, after the end of this competition day, there are 2 gold medals left in weightlifting, 1 in synchronized swimming, the Russia team is absent, and this championship is the Chinese team. In other competitions, including wrestling, boxing, canoeing, etc., the Chinese team has the strength to hit the gold medal.
The United States team has fewer and fewer gold points, and track and field will win up to 2-3 gold medals, even if men's basketball, women's basketball, and women's volleyball all win the championship, adding up to 6, and some other events can win the championship with good luck, but they do not have absolute dominance. Therefore, the Chinese team is likely to end up with 1 or 2 gold medals ahead of the United States in the first place in the gold medal table, and there are still 3 days of competition in the Olympics, so let's wait and see.