The Paris Olympics have been contested for two days, and the Japan team directly encountered a dark day, they have lost volleyball, basketball, table tennis, judo, gymnastics and other events; Among them, judo and gymnastics missed out on gold medals.
The first to cause an upset for Japan was table tennis Tomokazu Zhangmoto/Hina Hayata, who were seen as the top rivals for the title by Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha as the second seeds of the Games, but in the first round, the pair were upset by the North Korean pair, and the second seeds finished their Olympic mixed doubles journey in just 49 minutes. This exit also directly prevented the Japan team from defending the gold medal in this event.
Although Japan's men's national football team won two consecutive wins in the group stage to qualify early, Japan lost consecutive games in basketball and volleyball; First, Japan lost 77-97 to Germany in the first round of the group stage; The men's volleyball team also played against Germany, and as a result, after a hard-fought 5 games, it was reversed 2:3 and failed to win.
And the Japan women's volleyball team that appeared today did not escape the embarrassment of opening the door; Although the Japan women's volleyball team has improved significantly in recent years, it shouted the slogan of competing for medals before the start of the Olympics. But the sports arena is the result after all, facing the Poland women's volleyball team that once defeated them, the Japan women's volleyball team directly lost 3 games in a row after winning one game first, and was reversed by the Poland team 1:3.
I don't know if the successive losses caused the mentality of the Japan players or their own strength was exposed, the men's horizontal bar defending champion Daiki Hashimoto of the Tokyo Olympics had a major exit in the qualifying tournament, not only failed to defend the title, but was also directly eliminated. Who is Daiki Hashimoto? It is the player who landed in the last Olympics and stepped out of the line directly.
In Japan's traditional judo event, it was also a tragic achievement, and it lost 2 gold medals in a row; Nagayama Natsuki, who took the lead, unexpectedly lost to Fran Garrigos of Spain in the quarterfinals of the men's 60kg class. Today's Abe Shi, the defending champion in the women's 52kg category, shouted before the match that she had the confidence to defend her title, and as a result, she lost 1-10 to her opponent in the round of 16 against Uzbekistan's Diyola Krdiyorova.
5 events, 7 defeats, 2 gold medals lost; Many netizens even complained about leaving the home advantage, and the Japan team was revealed. So far, the Japan team has only won 1 gold medal and 1 bronze medal, and has lost many events, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to replicate the results of the last edition of 27 gold, 14 silver and 17 bronze.