In a key match in the Xi'an Division of the Women's Basketball Qualifying Tournament for the Paris Olympics held on February 10, the Chinese women's basketball team and the French women's basketball team had an important matchup about the right to qualify from the group. Under the ardent expectation of many home spectators, the Chinese women's basketball team unfortunately encountered the French women's basketball team's tight defense and fierce offense, and finally lost with a disparity of 50-82, losing the opportunity to lock the Olympic quota in advance.
The French women's basketball team has always been a regular at the Olympic Games, having achieved impressive results in the last three Olympic Games, winning silver, fourth and bronze medals. Although their results in the 2022 Women's Basketball World Cup are not as good as the third-ranked Chinese women's basketball team, judging from the previous head-to-head records of the two teams, the French women's basketball team has always had a clear advantage. Since 2007, the two sides have met 10 times, and the French women's basketball team has won eight of them, especially between 2007 and 2019, they have achieved six consecutive victories against the Chinese women's basketball team, including the 2018 Women's Basketball World Cup.
Win by 14 points in the fifth and sixth place qualifying rounds.
It was not until 2022 that the Chinese women's basketball team finally broke this winless record that lasted for more than ten years, defeated the French women's basketball team by a huge margin of 33 points in the World Cup qualifiers, and eliminated the opponent again with a 14-point advantage in the World Cup 1 4 finals, resulting in the French women's basketball team missing the semifinals. Despite this, the overall strength gap between the Chinese women's basketball team and the French women's basketball team has not been completely reversed. In the two friendly matches played this year, the Chinese team lost to the French team again.
In this Olympic qualifying competition, the Chinese women's basketball team was expected to rewrite history, with the advantage of the home court and the relatively relaxed mentality of the French women's basketball team because it had directly qualified for the Olympics as the host. However, it is regrettable that the Chinese women's basketball team failed to grasp this precious opportunity, but was comprehensively suppressed by the French women's basketball team on the court, scoring only 50 points in the whole game, setting a new low in single-game scoring in recent years.
This defeat made the road to the Paris Olympics extremely difficult for the Chinese women's basketball team. In the upcoming matches against New Zealand and Puerto Rico, the Chinese women's basketball team must go all out to secure a place in the top three of the group and thus earn a valuable Olympic ticket. Otherwise, they will face the embarrassing situation of not participating in the Olympics. Whether the Chinese women's basketball team can lift its spirits in the face of adversity, meet the challenge and achieve a counterattack will undoubtedly become the biggest attraction of the next competition.
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