Chinese women's basketball in the game.
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What does it take to get back on the podium at the World Series?
For the lucky, it is waiting for the goddess of luck to pity again; for the strong, it is a brave new start after knowing shame; for the collective, it is a big wave after the end of the golden age.
For the Chinese women's basketball team, this is more of a relay and dormancy that spans the century. It is the precipitation and breakthrough after many competitions and Olympic cycles. It is the yearning and waiting of generations of women's basketball players for 28 years.
Chinese women's basketball in the game.
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On October 1, Beijing time, the Chinese women's basketball team, which returned to the World Cup final stage after 28 years, faced off against the world's No. 1 team, the United States.
After four fierce battles, the stronger American women's basketball team won the game 83:61, and the Chinese women's basketball team won the runner-up.
Although it failed to reach the top in the end, this team with an average age of only 26 years old brought us surprises and touches in this tournament with its courageous and fearless fighting spirit, all of which blew at the final whistle. At that time, remember it in your heart and engrave it into history.
The medals re-hanging on the chests of the women's basketball players are also the teachers of this glory. In the past few years and even since the beginning of the new century, the sweat and tears have condensed; it is also an opportunity to open the starting point and proof of leaping to a new peak.
Data map: After the Chinese women's basketball team defeated the Australian women's basketball team.
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Looking back on this tournament, the Chinese women's basketball team worked together to play one after another heart-pounding game, fighting resolutely and winning wonderfully, making the results more valuable.
In the group stage, the Chinese women's basketball team won the other 4 games in addition to losing to the US team by 14 points.
They defeated South Korea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Puerto Rico and Belgium with 63 points, 47 points, 35 points and 26 points respectively, and advanced to the second place in Group A.
Entering the knockout round, the first opponent of the Chinese women's basketball team, the French team, is not only the bronze medalist in the Tokyo Olympics, but also ranks higher than itself in the world.
In the face of a strong enemy, the women's basketball girl withstood several counterattacks from her opponent and returned to the semi-finals of the World Series with an undoubted victory.
Wang Siyu is in the game.
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The Australian women's basketball team used to be a big mountain in front of the Chinese women's basketball team.
In the 2018 World Cup knockout, the Chinese team lost to the opponent by a huge score difference of 41 points. This tragic loss was like a basin of cold water, pouring it on the heads of the young players.
Now at the opponent's home court, with the core Li Meng absent due to illness, the Chinese women's basketball team competes for point by point, rebounds for rebounds, and details every detail, so that the victory will come naturally, and the five-star red flag will reappear in Women's Basketball World Cup final.
In the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese women's basketball team lost to the Serbian women's basketball team and stopped in the quarter-finals.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
From the 35-point defeat to the Japanese team in the 2015 Asian Championships final, to the Rio Olympics group stage with 1 win and 4 losses and missed the quarter-finals, the 10th place set the worst record in the Olympic Games, and then to the Tokyo Olympics, where it won the fifth place. Standing on the podium of the World Series, what happened to the Chinese women's basketball team?
In 2017, Xu Limin served as the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, and the team will return to the podium of the World Series as a persistent goal.
Boldly recruiting young players and constantly tempering through competitions, the Chinese women's basketball team has overcome all obstacles and experienced the pains of growth.
A strong team will not always be a stumbling block on the way forward. Facing defeat will make the brave more and more courageous.
In 2018, the Chinese women's basketball team regained the Asian Games gold medal after 8 years.
The World Cup defeated the Japanese team again, breaking the demon of "invincible Japan" for many years.
Han Xu, Wang Siyu, Li Yueru, Li Meng and other players gradually carried the team's banner.
"We must play the spirit of the Chinese women's basketball team, dare to fight tough battles, and become stronger when we are strong." It also pointed out the key to the new breakthrough of this brand-new Chinese women's basketball team.
Data map: Coach Zheng Wei and Han Xu.
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From the mountain to another mountain, through the light and shadow of history, head coach Zheng Wei has become a witness to the ups and downs of the Chinese women's basketball team in the past 28 years.
From creating brilliance to leading the team to rebuild brilliance in Blessed Sydney, Zheng Wei was thrown high by the players, and the whole team gathered an unprecedented centripetal force.
Zheng Wei's team always has someone who can stand up at a critical moment.
It was defender Li Yuan who eliminated the French team in the quarter-finals, and Han Xu, Wang Siyu and Yang Liwei played the best role in defeating the host Australia in the semi-finals.
There is also Li Meng, who is absent due to illness, but always stands with the team.
"The key is to have a firm belief, to be able to firm up the confidence to win, and to persist to the end." Yang Liwei said.
"I think it's our accumulation, this moment is the moment to show ourselves, this moment is our moment." Wang Siyu's tone was firm.
Heroes are silent, but years speak.
To be strong, every step counts.
Yang Liwei, Li Yueru, Li Meng, Huang Sijing,
Zhang Ru, Pan Zhenqi, Han Xu, Li Yuan, Wang Siyu,
Wu Tongtong, Dilana Dirichati, Jin Weina
And coach Zheng Wei
Let's remember for China
The women's basketball girls fighting for a silver medal
they let
The Chinese women's basketball team is finally in bloom!