The Chinese women's basketball team has now arrived in Lille, France, where they are playing, and they are stationed in the Olympic Village in Lille, and all the games of the group stage of the Chinese women's basketball team will be completed in Lille, Zheng Wei also said in an interview that the court is very large, and I don't know if this situation will have an impact on the Chinese women's basketball game. According to the latest news sent by the reporter in front, the Chinese women's basketball team is likely not to participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games tomorrow in Paris, France, which is indeed a great pity.
The reason for the absence of the opening ceremony is very simple, because the Chinese women's basketball team is currently located in Lille, not Paris, and Lille is 210 kilometers away from Paris, and it takes five or six hours to go back and forth. Therefore, in order to prepare for the first match between No. 28 and Spain, Yao Ming Zheng Wei decided not to lead the team to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, but also to achieve a better result in this competition. In addition to the Chinese women's basketball team, the Chinese shooting team also lacked the opening ceremony because the training base is relatively far away from Paris. In fact, it doesn't matter if you don't participate in the opening ceremony, as long as you can achieve good results in the Olympic Games, I believe Chinese netizens can understand.
The Chinese women's basketball team is in a group with Spain, Serbia and Puerto Rico this time, which is a very good group according to the predictions given by FIBA. Because in this group, the Chinese women's basketball team has the highest power ranking, ranking sixth, Spain ranked eighth, Serbia ranked ninth, and Puerto Rico ranked second-to-last. However, judging from the previous series of warm-up games, the performance of the Chinese women's basketball team does not seem to be satisfactory.
Serbia and Spain both teams have defeated the Chinese team in the warm-up match, especially the Spain team, when they won the Chinese team 24 points, the last four warm-up games, Spain played very well, showing extremely strong defensive ability, four games, each game they were able to suppress the opponent's score below 50 points, this terrifying defensive power, indeed made the Chinese women feel very suffocated. A very important reason for the disastrous defeat in the last warm-up match between the Chinese women's basketball team and Spain is that our lineup is not complete. Li Yueru and Li Meng were not on the court at the time, and I don't know if the Chinese women's basketball team can achieve a satisfactory result when they face the Spain women's basketball team again after the two of them return.
Spain were runners-up in last year's European Championship and reached the Olympics with a second-place finish in Hungary in this year's Olympic qualifying tournament. In the last Olympic Games, the two sides played each other in the qualifying round, when in the final round of the competition, the Chinese women's basketball team defeated the Spain team and successfully won the final ticket to the Tokyo Olympics, this time both teams entered the finals, for the Spain women's basketball team, the game against the Chinese team is definitely a revenge battle.
However, not all news is not good for the Chinese women's basketball team, the number one star of the Spain team missed the Olympic Games due to injury, her absence for the Chinese women's basketball team, especially on the outside offensive and defensive ends will reduce the pressure, I hope the Chinese team can take advantage of the time not to participate in the opening ceremony to rest well, and strive to get a good start in Lille.