On August 8, Beijing time, the Chinese women's volleyball team, which ended the Paris Olympics competition, took a flight back to China, and many fans went to the airport to greet them, but they were far less popular than the Chinese badminton team and the Chinese gymnastics team when they returned to China, which also aroused discussions among many netizens.
As can be seen from the photos, there are not many fans who went to the airport to greet the Chinese women's volleyball team, which is far from the overcrowded scene when it was most popular in the past. And just the day before, when the Chinese badminton team returned to China, Wang Chang was chased and ran helplessly, and appealed to everyone to be rational in the fan base, revealing that his luggage was about to be squeezed out. Also on the same day, when the Chinese gymnastics team returned to China, Zhang Boheng was forced to hide in the toilet because there were too many fans at the scene. Compared with those two teams, the Chinese women's volleyball team, which was on the front line of popularity in the past, saw that because of the top 8 results in the Paris Olympics, some fans lost the motivation to go to the airport to greet the team.
The Chinese women's volleyball team was one of the fastest teams to enter the Paris Olympics, winning the first game against the United States in five games, defeating their opponents in the Olympic Games for the first time in 20 years. Subsequently, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the host France team and the world-class Boskovic Serbia team, and entered the top 8 with a proud record of three consecutive victories. To the surprise of fans, perhaps carrying the burden of wanting to win and being afraid of losing, the Chinese women's volleyball team failed to play its best in the 1/4 final against Turkey, and could only swallow the bitter fruit of missing the semi-finals after five games, and the opponent's strong response Vargas slashed 42 points to become the key to the victory or defeat of the game.
The Chinese women's volleyball team has always been the top team in China's sports circle, including Zhu Ting, Zhang Changning, Hui Ruoqi and other star athletes also have high popularity. However, after missing the group qualification for the Tokyo Olympics and the quarterfinals of the Paris Olympics, the failure to deliver satisfactory answers to the fans for two consecutive Olympic Games also made the Chinese women's volleyball team seem to lose the love of some fans, which can be seen from the cold at the airport after they returned home. To add insult to injury, the star athlete in the Chinese women's volleyball team, Zhu Ting has made it clear that this is her last Olympic Games, Zhang Changning, Gong Xiangyu and others are difficult to hold on for another four years because of their age, and Li Yingying also showed her intention to retreat, who can carry the banner is worrying.