Original title: These events should not be missed during the Spring Festival.
The Spring Festival of 2024 is coming, accompanied by the longest Spring Festival holiday in history, many spectators will also usher in a series of popular events at home and abroad, such as Chen Meng's dream World Table Tennis Championships, Quan Hongchan's "Water Splash Disappearance Technique", Women's Basketball Championships, Ma Long's Nine World Table Tennis Championships and other Spring Festival events should not be missed.
The Chinese women's basketball team has entered the "Olympic moment".
From February 8, the Chinese women's basketball team will enter the "Olympic moment". In the four-day tense schedule in Xi'an, Shaanxi, the Chinese women's basketball team has faced the New Zealand team, the Paris Olympics host France team and the Puerto Rico team. Previously, the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, Zheng Wei, Li Meng, Li Yuan and other players said in an interview that the goal of the Chinese women's basketball team in the Paris Olympics is to stand on the podium and attack the best record in team history and the top of the Olympic Games. To achieve this goal, the first task is to make the 2024 Paris Olympics women's basketball qualifiers on your doorstep.
This is the ninth time that the Chinese women's basketball team has started its Olympic journey. Previously, the Chinese women's basketball team had participated in the 8 Olympic Games, and the best result was the runner-up in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Since August 4, 2021, when the women's basketball team lost to Serbia 70 77 in the 1 4 finals of the Tokyo Olympics and unfortunately stopped in the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games, the Chinese women's basketball team has turned all its energy to prepare for and train to the Paris Olympic Games. In the following two years, the Chinese women's basketball team successively won the World Cup runner-up, the Asian Cup champion, and the Asian Games champion. Not long ago, Zheng Wei, who led the team to prepare for the Paris Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Qingyuan, Guangdong, said frankly in an interview, "The task of the Chinese women's basketball team in 2024 is more arduous, first of all, the Olympic Qualifying Tournament is our goal, we must enter the Olympic Games, and then strive for better results in the Olympic Games to make up for the regrets of the last time." ”
Diving "Dream Team" Spring Festival stalls
From February 2 to February 18, the World Aquatics Championships were held in Doha, Qatar. The competition includes swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, water polo, open water swimming and high diving. The new generation of young players of the Chinese swimming team led by Li Bingjie, Yu Yiting and Pan Zhanle took the lead and increased their competition experience for the Paris Olympics through training at the World Championships. The Chinese diving team will do its best, and the popular diver Quan Hongchan will once again attack the women's 10-meter platform single diving champion, and will continue to strive to stage the "water splash disappearance" to bring wonderful visual enjoyment to the audience.
The Chinese diving team participated in 10 of the 13 events and won gold. Since they had already qualified for the Paris Olympics at the last World Championships, the most important task of the "Dream Team" in this competition was to train their troops. Quan Hongchan and double partner Chen Yuxi continued to stage the "battle of the peak", chasing her first gold medal in the singles World Championships; For the returning Tokyo Olympics men's 3m springboard double champion Xie Sicheng, he will work hard to fight for the men's 3m springboard Olympic quota; Also "re-emerged" is the three-time Olympic champion and "diving genius" Cao Yuan, who has a chance to compete for the men's 10-meter platform qualification at the Paris Olympics.
The new synchronized swimming rules have been implemented since last year, and the Chinese team will compete in all 11 events of the World Championships for the first time with the double and collective events at the Hangzhou Asian Games. The Chinese synchronized swimming team will continue to adapt to the new rules in Doha and meet the challenges of the Paris Olympics. In addition, the Chinese women's water polo team has also qualified for the Paris Olympics, and the biggest task of this World Championships is to train the team and learn from the strong teams.
Table tennis "Tiantuan" defends the honor of "national ball".
The team event of the 2024 World Table Tennis Championships will be held in Busan, South Korea, from February 16 to 25. The last team World Table Tennis Championships was held in Chengdu, Sichuan, and the national table tennis men's team and women's team won the championship without any suspense. Compared with the scale of the 32 men's teams and 28 women's teams in Chengdu at that time, the lineup of 40 men's and women's teams in the Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships has been expanded on a large scale, and almost every team has sent an absolute main force to participate, and the national table tennis men's team and the national table tennis women's team will fully defend the honor of "national ball".
On February 6, the official website of the Chinese Table Tennis Association announced the list of participants in the team competition of the Chinese national table tennis team at the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan will compete in the men's team competition, Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu and Chen Xingtong will participate in the women's team competition. It is worth mentioning that this competition will be the 9th time that the 35-year-old Ma Long has participated in the men's team competition of the World Table Tennis Championships since 2006, and he has helped the Chinese team win the championship in the previous 8 times.
The lineup of the national table tennis team competition at the Busan World Table Tennis Championships is determined in accordance with the previously announced "Table Tennis 2024 Paris Olympic Games Selection Measures" and "Table Tennis 2024 Paris Olympic Games Selection Related International Competition Registration Rules". According to the singles world rankings released by the International Table Tennis Federation on February 6, the top five athletes in the men's and women's world rankings of the Chinese team automatically qualify for the team competition of the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, so the top five men's singles world rankings Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan and the top four women's singles world rankings Sun Yingsha, Wang Yidi, Chen Meng, Wang Manyu will take on the important task of winning the men's and women's team championships for the national table tennis team in Busan. Li Falcon, the head coach of the Chinese table tennis team, said frankly that this lineup is the strongest team lineup of the national table tennis team, and the team members have proved their strength through many competitions, and they are also the key objects of the Olympic team.
The AFCOPA final was followed by the Asian Cup
As the first continental competition of international football since the beginning of the year, although the Chinese men's football team was eliminated early in this Asian Cup, the spectacle and competitive level of the strong confrontations in the second half of the knockout round are much higher than those in the group stage. At present, the semi-finals of the Asian Cup have been produced, and in the semifinals at 23:00 Beijing time on February 6, the Jordanian team played against the South Korean team; In the semi-finals at 23:00 Beijing time on February 7, the Iranian team will play against the Qatar team. At 23:00 on February 10, Beijing time, the winners of the two semifinals will stage the pinnacle showdown of this Asian Cup. Who will have the last laugh will have to wait and see on the night of the first lunar month.
The Asian Cup final will be followed by the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations final in Côte d'Ivoire on 11 February. One of the outstanding features of this year's Africa Cup of Nations is that there are many popular teams in the hearts of fans, such as Morocco, the top four teams of the last World Cup, Senegal and Egypt, the champions and runners-up of the last Africa Cup of Nations, and Egypt. At present, among the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations, the favorite to win the championship is the Nigerian team, and they are worth 1The 100 million euro Serie A Golden Boot Osimhen is expected to win the championship of this tournament.
Among the mainstream European football leagues, it is worth paying attention to the top battle of the Bundesliga, Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich will meet in the early morning of February 11 Beijing time, followed by the Premier League match between Manchester United and Aston Villa in the early morning of February 12.
Guanhai News Qingdao Morning Post reporter Liu Shijie.
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