(Reporter Liang Bin) Yesterday, the Chinese Volleyball Association revealed through its official Weibo that the Chinese women's volleyball team has arrived in the Netherlands, where the women's volleyball world championship is held.
At 20:00 on September 25th, Beijing time, the Chinese women's volleyball team will face Argentina, the team's first opponent in this World Championship.
According to the introduction of the Chinese Volleyball Association, a group of 28 Chinese women's volleyball team has successfully arrived in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and then took the bus of the organizing committee to Arnhem, where the team will make the final preparations before the start of the World Championships.
The Chinese women's volleyball team will compete in the group stage and partial knockout stage in the Netherlands. Before the opening match on the 25th, the team will submit a list of 14 players.
Previously, after the World Women's Volleyball League ended, the Chinese women's volleyball team returned to the Ningbo Beilun training base for quarantine as required.
During this period, everyone did not relax in the slightest. According to Cai Bin, the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, during the quarantine period, the Beilun Base provided each athlete's room with physical training equipment. Everyone communicated in time through video to recover their physical fitness after the World League.
After the quarantine was over, the team immediately started preparing for the World Championships for more than a month.
Cai Bin revealed that during the preparation period, the players practiced almost three times a day, making full use of more than a month of training and preparation to solve the problems exposed by the World League and make up for their shortcomings.
The World Championships has always been characterized by a large number of participating teams, a long schedule and high intensity.
The Chinese women's volleyball team has won the World Championships twice and won the bronze medal in the last World Championships.
This world championship is not only the first women's volleyball world competition in the Paris Olympic cycle, but also will face the situation of new crown epidemic prevention and control.
Therefore, the Chinese women's volleyball team is facing a bigger test during this World Championships trip.
Cai Bin said that the Chinese women's volleyball team will go all out to give full play to its own level, carry forward the spirit of women's volleyball team, and strive for success with tenacious and hard work.