(Tokyo Olympics) Lang Ping: Hold your head up when you lose

　　China News Service, Tokyo, July 29th. Title: Lang Ping: Hold your head up when you lose

　　China News Agency reporter Xing Chong

　　Walking into the Ariake Stadium in Tokyo again on the 29th, the Chinese women's volleyball coach Lang Ping knew that if this does not win, the situation will be precarious.

　　The first match accidentally lost to the Turkish team 0:3, and the second round was another 0:3 loss to the US team. The Chinese women's volleyball team has been forced to a dead end.

According to the rules, only the top four of the group can enter the knockout stage. After two rounds, the Chinese team, which has not won a game, ranks last, which means that the remaining three games must win at least two to have any chance of promotion.

　　The Italian team, which has rapidly improved during the Tokyo Olympics cycle, is obviously a "hard bone". It must not be missed when playing against the Russian Olympic Committee and Argentina. From the perspective of strength, if the Chinese team performs normally, it will play against these two teams. The team has a greater chance of winning.

　　However, what I did not expect is that the performance of the Chinese women's volleyball team made the outside world feel so "abnormal"-and ultimately lost to the Russian Olympic Committee 2:3.

What's even more regrettable is that the Chinese women's volleyball team suffered a comeback in the fourth game with a big lead. The opponent in the deciding game was even more eager, leaving no chance for the Chinese women's volleyball team to counterattack.

　　Having suffered a three-game losing streak in the group stage, the promotion of the Chinese women's volleyball team is at stake.

Walking through the mixed mining area, Lang Ping said that the situation has become very serious for such a result.

　　At present, the Chinese women's volleyball team is far from the best, and Lang Ping, who has been on the battlefield, knows this.

After the first two defeats, Lang Ping calmly resumed the game: "The main problem in the first match was his own problems. The offense and blocking were not played out, which made it difficult to score points." Although the second round was "adjusted well", "blocks were always blocked." Destroy, there is no chance of counterattack to score", "still a little tight."

This time, the Chinese women's volleyball team did not make significant progress on both ends of the offense and defense.

　　Lang Ping is more clear that the impact of the main attacker Zhu Ting's wrist injury on the Chinese team may be difficult to eliminate in a short time.

However, "Let Zhu Ting rest, who will come?" Lang Ping also had conflicts in his mind.

　　In view of the decline of Zhu Ting's spiking power, the opponent obviously has a targeted study.

This Jie Langping even bluntly said that Zhu Ting hadn't opened this point at all, "She grinned and hit, and basically did not dare to reach out when blocking the net.

　　Lang Ping revealed that the most unexpected thing in these three games was not the loss, but that Zhu Ting's injury was much more serious than expected.

"Unexpectedly, Zhu Ting was injured so badly. We have been giving her conservative treatment. It used to be okay, but a single shot would not work."

　　Freelance Wang Mengjie has also suffered a lot of doubts, is considered to have ups and downs in performance, and often become the focus of attention of opponents.

However, there are still matches to be played, and Lang Ping seems unwilling to make negative comments on the players at this time.

"She played very well. In the first pass and defense, she played in the entire half." At the same time, Lang Ping denied that Wang Mengjie was targeted by his opponent.

　　After the defeat, the players walked through the mixed mining area, and everyone's face was full of loss.

"Let's talk a few words, just two sentences." Some of the more than ten reporters called out, but Zhu Ting, Zhang Changning, Ding Xia and others walked straight by without looking back.

　　In the end, Li Yingying, who was called the "sister" in the team, stopped. She scored the team's highest score of 27 points that day.

She said that in the fourth game, the opponent gave the Chinese team a big impact on the serve. In the fifth game, the momentum was very strong, resulting in the Chinese team's failure to adjust.

　　"What did the director Lang say to you before the end?" a reporter asked.

"Director Lang asked us to raise our heads." Li Yingying replied.

　　Obviously, Lang Ping did not want to make the team atmosphere too solemn.

Of course, she didn't seem to want to make herself look serious.

For example, when she came to the mixed mining area, she jokingly said to the reporters: "You are still waiting for me, never give up!"

　　There are still two games, Lang Ping does not want to put too much pressure on the players.

In the end, she said that winning or losing is commonplace in the military. If you can't win, you will hold your head high, and you will lose your head if you lose.

"Everyone works very hard. We are playing a kind of sportsmanship, so we have to hold our heads up when we lose." (End)