In view of the performance of individual players and the overall performance of the team at the World Table Tennis Team Championships in Busan, South Korea, the Chinese Table Tennis Association will make changes to the team selection rules for the upcoming Paris Olympics.
In the past, the Olympic selection rules were to completely pass the multi-first selection competition within the team, and finally determine the list of participants according to the ranking of results. This mechanism, which simply determines the qualification for the Olympics based on internal war results and world rankings, is no longer suitable for the competitiveness of national football in the world competition.
World rankings rely on international opportunities and are sometimes unreliable and do not fully reflect the true strength of the players. The results of the team's competitions are sometimes even more unreliable, and some players have outstanding results in the internal war but the external victory rate is unsatisfactory, this phenomenon is called "the civil war is an insider, an outsider".
However, in the past, this rule was not fixed, that is, there was room for flexibility. For individual players with outstanding skills and tactics, if they are not selected in the team selection competition for various reasons, the team has the right to decide.
According to an insider, there will be some changes to the rules for the selection of teams for the Paris Olympics. After all, the performance of individual team members at the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, South Korea, such as Wang Yidi of the women's team, was unsatisfactory. The immediate cause of this situation is a problem with the pre-tournament selection mechanism, which determines the entry and playing lists based solely on the world rankings.
The selection criteria for the Paris Olympics will take the team's performance into an important factor, and the results of the domestic internal selection will no longer be the main consideration.
As a result, Wang Yidi's Olympic qualification is suspended, after all, from the beginning of last year to the World Table Tennis Championships that just ended, Wang Yidi's performance is indeed not so satisfactory.