This year's Tokyo Olympic Games, 31-year-old veteran Liu Xiaotong went out with the team, although he rarely got the opportunity to play in the game, but as a veteran who has been 30+ years old, this persistence and effort are still worthy of recognition. Liu Xiaotong is an excellent main attacker emerging during Lang Ping's coaching of the Chinese women's volleyball team, playing a "strange soldier" role in the competition between the Chinese women's volleyball team and the Brazilian women's volleyball team at the Rio Olympic Games, helping the Chinese women's volleyball team to squeeze the host into the final four.
From the 2014 Women's Volleyball World Championship to the 2019 Women's Volleyball World Cup, the Chinese women's volleyball team has won five podiums in three competitions, and won three gold, one silver and one bronze. In these five competitions, only 3 members of the team participated in all the matches in their entirety, and the 3 players were Zhu Ting, Yuan Xinyue and Liu Xiaotong. Although in these games, Liu Xiaotong is more sitting on the bench, but in the case of the Tactical Rotation of the Chinese Women's Volleyball Team and the limitation of the field, he still plays an irreplaceable role, and is the blessing soldier of the Chinese Women's Volleyball Team.
Liu Xiaotong has always been a marginal figure in the national team, the first pass guarantee is not as good as Zhang Changning, and the front row attack is not as good as Zhu Ting, but in the two Olympic cycles, he has gained a firm foothold in the national team, relying on his own efforts and perseverance. As early as 2014, after Liu Xiaotong participated in the Women's Volleyball World Championship, he was returned to the provincial team due to loopholes in a pass, serve, guarantee and other aspects. But she did not give up on this, but through hard training to make up for her technical shortcomings, and even practiced to the extent of her own blood, and finally hitched a ride on the last train of the 2015 Women's Volleyball World Cup, and became famous in the 2016 Rio Olympics against Brazil, becoming a hero of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
Liu Xiaotong on the field is low-key and introverted, and Liu Xiaotong on the field is also bright and moving, of course, there is no shortage of suitors around. Among them is the kayaking world champion Wang Hao, before the official announcement, Wang Hao has repeatedly shown love to Liu Xiaotong on personal social media, but our cold women's volleyball girls almost never respond. Just recently, our women's volleyball girls also responded to this relationship in a high profile on Weibo. And the boyfriend Wang Hao is also an athlete, who won the kayaking world championship in 2016 and was born in 1993, three years younger than Liu Xiaotong, and the two are a veritable sister-brother love. Once this relationship was exposed, it also attracted the blessings of many netizens. After the end of the Tokyo Olympic Games and the Western Security Games, Liu Xiaotong is also in a state of semi-retirement, looking forward to their early blossoming.