Gymnastics women group advance to the finals is missing Anxiety about the Olympics due to the thinness of the layers October 6 9:21
Japan finished 11th in the World Gymnastics Championships and Women's Qualifying Group held on the 5th, and it was the first time in 12 years to miss the finals, although it won the Tokyo Olympics. Although the lack of Ace's Murakami Yui was affected, the thinness of the female athletes was exposed, and the Tokyo Olympics remained uneasy.
For the world championship, Japan was an ace, and Murakami, who won the silver medal at the last year's tournament overall, was removed from the national team due to the injury. He was confident that he was “at a level where he could get enough medals at a World Championship organization”.
However, in the actual world championships, the top eight teams did not advance to the final.
The absence of Murakami has had a major impact on the results of this tournament, as Japan was fourth in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, where Murakami was a representative member, and sixth in the world championship last year. It was.
Looking at the results of the qualifying rounds of the world's most powerful nations, the United States has 1st, 2nd and 5th players, and China has 6th and 7th players. While multiple players are at the top, Japan is ranked 16th and 23rd in the individual overall, and no one was able to advance to the final by event.
Due to the absence of Murakami, the thinness of these players was revealed.
During the less than a year until the Tokyo Olympics, not only relying on the return of representatives from Murakami, but also how to improve the ability of other players, and how to select representatives and team structure to leave results in the group What to do is asked to strengthen the Japan Gymnastics Association.