Image source: Screenshot of the website of the Chinese Volleyball Association.

  China News Service, February 18th. The website of the Chinese Volleyball Association announced on the 18th that Lai Yawen, the director of the Volleyball Center, went to the National Men’s and Women’s Volleyball Teams to prepare for the mobilization work. .

  On February 13, Lai Yawen came to the Zhangzhou training base to visit the national men's volleyball team that was undergoing winter training.

She emphasized that the national men's volleyball team is a promising team. The whole team should carry forward the spirit of the women's volleyball team in the new era, strengthen their confidence and determination, train hard, and strive to improve their technical and tactical levels, so as to compete at the Hangzhou Asian Games and Paris Olympic qualifying competitions. ,Goals.

  On February 15, Lai Yawen returned to Ningbo Beilun training base with the team after watching the national women's volleyball team's military training performance in Wenling.

At the general mobilization meeting, Lai Yawen put forward requirements for the training and preparation of the women's volleyball team.

Lai Yawen emphasized that the national women's volleyball team should further inherit and carry forward the spirit of the women's volleyball team in the new era, firmly carry the banner of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and strive to improve their physical fitness and ability to use skills and tactics in accordance with the requirements of the General Administration of Sports, aiming to reach the highest podium of the Paris Olympic Games Do a good job of training and preparing for war.

  Lai Yawen was one of the well-known players of the Chinese women's volleyball team in the 1990s. With the Chinese women's volleyball team, he won the runner-up in the Atlanta Olympics and the runner-up in the 1998 World Championships.

After retiring, she served as an assistant coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and in 2017 was appointed as the deputy director of the Volleyball Sports Management Center of the State Sports General Administration.