After more than a month, the Chinese women's volleyball team once again fought five games with the Turkey women's volleyball team, but this time the difference was that the winning side was replaced by the opponent.
At the same time, the difference is that Zhu Ting was suspended due to injury in that game.
Of course, this is not to say that Zhu Ting's playing or not will affect the outcome of the game, as a world-class main attacker and old teammate, Zhu Ting's performance in this Olympic Games has been good enough.
And at the critical moment of the fifth game, Wu Mengjie's slash smash went out of bounds, imagine if the ball was replaced by Zhu Ting, would it be a successful score?
But competitive sports, after all, there is no if, and the Chinese women's volleyball team still did not surprise everyone all the way to the end.
Facing the world's top receiver Vargas, who is five years younger than herself, Zhu Ting has tried her best, but she still seems to be a little "willing to kill the enemy and unable to return to the sky".
I don't know if seeing Vargas's supernatural performance (one person's score is almost equal to Li Yingying + Zhu Ting), will the Chinese women's volleyball team recall Agnu in the 2018 World Championships?
Will Zhu Ting think of herself in the summer of 2016?
Will Lang Ping regret rejecting Vargas's naturalization application a few years ago?
After winning the gold medal in the Rio Olympics, the Chinese women's volleyball team has missed the medal competition for two consecutive Olympic Games, and this time after the Paris Olympics, it will undoubtedly become another update of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
Yuan Xinyue, Zhang Changning, Ding Xia, Zhu Ting, and Wang Mengjie all have a high probability of completing their "last dance" of the Olympics.
In the next Los Angeles Olympic cycle, the Chinese women's volleyball team may usher in a more difficult "painful period".
After winning the gold medal in Athens in 2004, the Chinese women's volleyball team experienced two dormant sessions in Beijing and London.
After winning gold again in Rio after 12 years, I don't know if another 12 years of the next Olympics are about to pass, can the Chinese women's volleyball team usher in the next peak? Judging from the current situation, it should be more difficult......
Li Yingying will undoubtedly be the absolute leader of the new generation of Chinese women's volleyball team, but the super configuration of "double main attack" is no longer available.
And after the game, even Li Yingying said that she didn't know if this was her last Olympics.
Objectively speaking, the overall performance of the Chinese women's volleyball team in this Olympic Games is still remarkable, but unfortunately it is true that the knockout round signing luck is slightly poor, and in the first round it met Turkey, which has a similar style of play.
The strength of the teams that can enter the knockout round is already between the two sides, and the five-game battle against Turkey can be described as a chess opponent (107-110 in total).
It is true that the Chinese women's volleyball team has not solved a pass and an attack in the whole competition, and Li Yingying's strength in the group stage still somewhat covers up some problems.
But compared to Tokyo's humiliating group exit, the Paris Dream can be said to have gone extremely tragically.
As for Cai Bin's coaching, if you have to evaluate, it can only be said that it is a slight improvement from before, but it is not much...... His on-the-spot command ability is still one of the biggest weaknesses of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
The turn of the times is often inadvertent, and we have accompanied the Chinese women's volleyball team to witness the glory many times, and we have also experienced many times of loneliness.
But just like Director Lang Ping said after stepping down after the Tokyo Olympics: regret can be said, regret should not be said!
In a certain sense, the Chinese women's volleyball team has long gone beyond the scope of pure sports for the Chinese people, and at the same time, this sport does not need "champion fans".
I hope that in the future, there will be no more incomprehensible "mysterious operations", and we can still accompany the Chinese women's volleyball team to make a comeback and rebuild its glory.
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