The Chinese women's volleyball team lost in the qualifying round for the Paris Olympics and did not go through it for the first time, and some fans still think that the head coach Cai Bin is incompetent, and has been shouting for Cai Bin to leave class.
In fact, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost in the qualifying round for the Paris Olympics, and Cai Bin was just a "man behind the pot".
Let's first take a look at the grouping of the Paris Olympics Qualifying Tournament: Group A, where the Chinese women's volleyball team is located, has 5 of the top 11 teams in the world: Serbian women's volleyball team, Dominican women's volleyball team, Chinese women's volleyball team, Netherlands women's volleyball team, and Canadian women's volleyball team; There are only 3 teams in Group B: Turkish women's volleyball team, Brazilian women's volleyball team, and Japanese women's volleyball team; Group C is also 3 teams: the American women's volleyball team, the Italian women's volleyball team, and the Polish women's volleyball team.
In Group A, the Serbian women's volleyball team and the Dominican women's volleyball team have both defeated the Chinese women's volleyball team in the group stage of the 2023 World League, and the Dominican women's volleyball team also defeated the Serbian women's volleyball team in the group stage. Before the qualifying round, the Dominican women's volleyball team rose again in the CONCACAF Championship: defeating the United States women's volleyball team to win the championship.
This shows that the grouping of the Olympic qualifying tournament is not conducive to the Chinese women's volleyball team. If the Chinese women's volleyball team can't defeat the Serbian women's volleyball team and the Dominican women's volleyball team, it can only rank third in Group A and can't get two direct tickets to Group A.
Judging from the game process, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost 1-3 to the Dominican women's volleyball team; Although the last game defeated the Serbian women's volleyball team 3-1, it was because the fate of the direct ticket was decided, and the Serbian women's volleyball team hid the number one star Boskovic, allowing the Chinese women's volleyball team to win a game - if the Serbian women's volleyball team really plays, the Chinese women's volleyball team has no chance of winning.
Therefore, the fact that the Chinese women's volleyball team did not get a direct ticket is determined by the strength of the Chinese women's volleyball team, which is very normal.
Cai Bin said before the game that he was full of confidence in the Chinese women's volleyball team to go straight to the Olympic Games, which overestimated the strength of the Chinese women's volleyball team and underestimated the strength of the Dominican women's volleyball team. Although Cai Bin guided the two games reversed by the Canadian women's volleyball team and the Dutch women's volleyball team, there were command errors, but it had no impact on the outcome of the Chinese women's volleyball team's failure to pass through.
If the Chinese women's volleyball team is in Group C, it will also not be able to go through, because we can't beat the American women's volleyball team and the Italian women's volleyball team, and it is unknown whether the Polish women's volleyball team can beat again.
If the Chinese women's volleyball team is in Group B, it is more likely to go straight. Group B is directly connected to the Turkish women's volleyball team and the Brazilian women's volleyball team, although the Turkish women's volleyball team and the Chinese women's volleyball team can't win, but they still have a psychological advantage over the Brazilian women's volleyball team: we defeated the Brazilian women's volleyball team in the group stage and finals of the World League last year.
In addition, the home advantage of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the Olympic qualifying tournament did not help the Chinese women's volleyball team, but brought huge pressure, making the head coach Cai Bin and the players on the field have abnormal performances.
Knowing this, we should know: The fundamental reason for the failure of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the Olympic qualifying round is not the responsibility of head coach Cai Bin, but the strength of the Chinese women's volleyball team does not have direct conditions. Cai Bin is just a "backstabber".