On June 19, 2024, Beijing time, the draw ceremony for the women's volleyball team of the Paris Olympics was held in Bangkok, Thailand, at the finals venue, the Chinese women's volleyball team and the host French women's volleyball team, the last Olympic champion United States women's volleyball team, and the Serbian women's volleyball team were in Group A.
According to the Olympic qualification rules, four teams from each group will play a round-robin tournament, with the top two teams in the group automatically qualifying, plus the two best group thirds, for a total of eight teams to advance. In this way, in addition to competing with the teams in your own group, you also have to compare points with other teams, and the intensity is self-evident.
The women's volleyball grouping for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has been announced:
Paris Olympics women's volleyball group
Group A predicts the top three qualifiers: the United States, China, Serbia
The Chinese women's volleyball team must have no problem winning the French women's volleyball team, although it can't beat the United States, but it can still fight the Serbian women's volleyball team, and it should be able to enter the quarterfinals with the best third place in the group.
Group B predicts the top three qualifiers: Brazil, Poland, Japan
Japan is lucky, even if it can't win against the Brazilian women's volleyball team and the Polish women's volleyball team, there is a weakest Kenyan women's volleyball team, and it is very likely to advance with the best third place in the group.
Group C predicts the top two finishers: Italy, Turkey
Group C is easy to set in a row, and it is possible to defeat the opponent, and it is not easy to produce the best results. Italy and Turkey are predicted to advance.
There are 37 days left before the opening of the Paris Olympic Games, and the eight main players of the Chinese women's volleyball team: Zhu Ting, Li Yingying, Wu Mengjie, Yuan Xinyue, Li Yuanyuan, Gong Xiangyu, and Wang Mengjie, stayed in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province for training. The substitutes led by Zhang Changning participated in the finals of the World Women's Volleyball League in Bangkok and will face the Japanese women's volleyball team in the quarterfinals at 18:00 on the evening of June 20.