in 2024
Paris Olympics
women's volleyball
In the group stage, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the defending champion USA with 3:2, ending the embarrassing history of no win against USA in the last four Olympic Games. In this exciting match, the Chinese team showed strong fighting strength and unyielding spirit.
The Chinese women's volleyball team sent Diao Linyu, Li Yingying, Wang Yuanyuan, Gong Xiangyu, Zhu Ting, Yuan Xinyue and Wang Mengjie in the starting lineup. They quickly got into the game at the beginning, limiting the speed of the U.S. team's offense with high-quality serves, and won the first two sets consecutively with 25:20 and 25:19. However, in the third and fourth sets, China fluctuated in the stability of passing and the performance of offense and defense, and USA seized the opportunity to equalize the score with 25:17 and 25:20.
In the deciding game, China was once behind in the opening game, but with the excellent play of Li Yingying and Wang Yuanyuan, they turned the game around and gradually pulled away the score. In the end, after wasting two match points, the Chinese team sealed the victory at 15:13 with Zhu Ting's powerful kills and won this difficult victory.
According to official statistics, the Chinese team in the offense, serve and a pass in place rate and other aspects are inferior to the opponent, but their own errors than the U.S. team lost 10 points less. Li Yingying took a team-high 26 points, Zhu Ting contributed 17 points, Gong Xiangyu and Yuan Xinyue got 13 and 12 points respectively.
After the game, the Chinese women's volleyball team head coach Cai Bin said, for this game team up and down to do enough to deal with the difficulties of the preparation, know that the Olympic Games field will not be easy. In the last set, he also pinched a sweat for the team, the team can survive is very worthy of affirmation. At the same time, he said that the tournament has just begun, a game does not prove too many things.
Zhu Ting, the main general, said in an interview that every win or loss has its own significance, and when you lose, you have to look for some shortcomings, and when you win, you have to find a direction to continue to work hard. Today can win the game may be in did not give up.
