The Japanese women’s volleyball team, which has exhausted all its mechanisms, failed to figure itself out after all.

When talking about the Japanese women's volleyball team, we have to talk about the history of the Japanese women's volleyball team. It was the absolute dominance of the women's volleyball team in the last century.

In the 1964 Tokyo Olympics in the last century, women's volleyball entered the Olympics for the first time. The Japanese women's volleyball team won its first Olympic championship, and then won the Olympic championship again in the 1976 Montreal Olympics. From the 1960s to the 1970s, in addition to two Olympic championships, the Japanese women's volleyball team also won three world championships. In addition to a World Cup championship, the Japanese women's volleyball team won 6 titles in just two decades. The world champion, together with the Soviet women's volleyball team at the time, were known as the two heroes in the women's volleyball world. The Japanese women's volleyball team was called the "Witch of the East."

With these honors, the Japanese women's volleyball team was evaluated by the FIVB as the best women's volleyball team of the 20th century. This honor has not even been enjoyed by the Cuban women's volleyball team, which has won three consecutive Olympic Games.

Is it too cold to be at high places?

At its peak, the Japanese women's volleyball team began to make mistakes. You must know that before the 1980s, Japan was either the champion or the runner-up in the Olympic Games. However, before the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Japan followed the United States in boycotting the Moscow Olympics and did not participate. It was such a "foolish" decision that the Japanese women's volleyball team was punished.

Then the Japanese women's volleyball team began to usher in its own downhill journey. Although it won third place at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, it was at the end of its strength. Japan did not touch it in the next few Olympic Games. The podium, and even failed to qualify for the Olympics in some sessions. Of course, objectively speaking, the decline of the Japanese women's volleyball team is not only due to the replacement of old and new players, but also because the volleyball level of other countries is constantly improving.

At the end of the 20th century, with the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the rise of women's volleyball in Cuba and China, the Japanese women's volleyball team gradually withdrew from the championship competition. Entering the 21st century, competition has become more intense. In addition to the traditional strong teams, European and American volleyball teams have also joined the championship competition. At this time, the Japanese women's volleyball team has become the second-rate in the world.

As for the Japan Volleyball Association, it urgently needs a champion to reshape its status in the volleyball world. As the Japanese women's volleyball team defeated South Korea and won the bronze medal at the London Olympics, it enhanced the confidence of the Japan Volleyball Association. The Japanese women's volleyball team, which has returned to the podium after 28 years, has begun to long for the glory of winning the championship in 1964 at home. Also participating as the host nation, London has already stood on the podium. There is no reason not to create better results in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

With the determination of the participating teams from each continent and the determination of the women's volleyball world rankings, the Olympic groupings seem to become clear. Because the Chinese women's volleyball team has already received a quota in the Olympic qualifying tournament as well as the host Japan's own quota, then Asia has already received three quotas at this time. No matter who in Asia gets this quota, it is no longer important to Japan. , after all, the Japanese women's volleyball team does not take other countries to heart, whether it is South Korea or Thailand. Asia gets three places, which minimizes the number of European places. Then Japan will lose a strong European opponent. Relying on the "motivation" of its opponent, the Chinese Women's Volleyball Team, the Japanese Women's Volleyball Team has made the first move.

The next second and most important step is the Olympic grouping. The twelve teams were grouped in order according to the world rankings, and the world's number one was separated from the host. At that time, the Chinese women's volleyball team was ranked number one in the world, so the Japanese women's volleyball team avoided the Chinese women's volleyball team as they wished. The next step is how to "arrange" other opponents who are weaker on paper into your own group.

This is how the Korean women's volleyball team and the Dominican women's volleyball team are separated without breaking the rules. Of course, it would be better if one of Brazil and Serbia could be left out. But the rules don't allow it, otherwise the Argentine women's volleyball team would not be in Group B. In fact, compared to the Kenyan women's volleyball team, the Argentine women's volleyball team is really unlucky.

The Japanese women's volleyball team is in Group A. Except for Brazil and Serbia, the other three opponents are relatively weaker than her on paper. The situation is already very clear. Japan's group goal is to compete for second place and third place. With a little surprise, it is not impossible to qualify first.

The next step is the schedule. The schedule also plays a very important role in whether a team can successfully qualify. The Japanese women's volleyball team also attaches great importance to a good start, so the first opponent in the group stage chose the weakest Kenyan women's volleyball team. Compared with the Chinese women's volleyball team, which was ranked first in Group B at the time, its first opponent was Turkey, while the United States was Argentina. Japan did not play tricks on the schedule of this match and no one believed it.

The Japanese women's volleyball team's first win will play a very important role in their self-confidence, so their next opponents chose Sevilla and Brazil. Of course, it would be better if the second opponent could choose South Korea or the Dominican Republic. Why didn't the Japanese women's volleyball team do this? Because other opponents in the same group also have to compete, and you can't let others not play and just wait to compete with you. Therefore, what the Japanese women's volleyball team can arrange is the first and last one. The last opponent of the Japanese team is Dominica. Judging from the schedule, the Japan Volleyball Association also spent a lot of effort and thought.

The shabby and perfunctory accommodation in the Olympic Village caused the athletes who risked being infected by the epidemic to travel thousands of miles to Japan to complain wildly. Coupled with the large number of Japanese citizens who opposed the Olympics, Japan was losing character at the beginning. Continuously depleting one's energy. In addition, what is even more shameful is the serious "differential treatment" in referee decisions. The same actions performed by oneself and others can get different scores.

As a fan, of course I don’t want athletes to get injured, but everything the Japanese Olympic Organizing Committee does is sacrificing their own energy and the luck of the athletes. In the first game against Kenya, it was supposed to be an easy game to score points, but the main core of the Japanese women's volleyball team, Sari Koga, unfortunately accidentally sprained her foot and was seriously injured. This disaster directly brought the Japanese women's volleyball team to a desperate situation.

In the next matches against strong rivals Serbia and Brazil, Koga Sari did not play, and the Japanese women's volleyball team did not score a point, so the qualifying situation became serious. The fourth opponent is the Korean women's volleyball team. The Japanese women's volleyball team has reached the most critical battle. If they win, it can be said that they have obtained the right to line up. So Koga Sari gritted her teeth and tried to win the battle with South Korea despite being closed off. Although Koga Sari scored 27 points, the team was still in a sluggish state, and ultimately unfortunately lost the key battle 2-3, but it did not mean elimination. At this time, the Japanese women's volleyball team had already scored 4 points. The last opponent is the weak Dominican Republic. Whoever wins will qualify. As the host at home, no one wants to be eliminated, and if they are eliminated, it will be the Japanese women's volleyball team's worst record in the Olympic group stage.

With all this pressure, Koga Sari once again went into battle with an injury. This operation by the Japanese coaching staff made fun of the athletes' careers and completely destroyed the vitality of the Japanese women's volleyball team. Although the main attack came back with a closed game and scored 22 points, the Japanese women's volleyball team, which wanted to win but was afraid of losing, and was under huge pressure, failed to win the life-and-death battle. In the end, they lost to the Dominican Republic 1-3. When facing the Dominican Republic before, the Japanese women's volleyball team was far ahead in terms of record. Why did they still lose? Maybe they didn't understand it themselves. Obviously, they can no longer win the game by closing the game.

Due to the injury of the main attacker Sari Koga, the Japanese women's volleyball team failed to win in 5 games with the most critical opponent South Korea. The Japanese women's volleyball team wasted the best opportunity to qualify again and again, just like the Japanese organizing committee. , you have unique conditions but you are defeated by yourself, who can you blame!

With the loss to Dominica in a life-and-death battle, the Japanese team was also eliminated with 1 win and 4 losses. From the successful bid for the Olympics to the third place in the London Olympics, the Japan Volleyball Association spent nine years clearing all obstacles for their women's volleyball team and paving the road to the championship so smoothly, but Who would have expected that his child would be slapped in the face if he failed to live up to expectations. All the mechanisms were exhausted, but in the end, he failed to understand his own strength.

Throughout the Eastern Olympics, Japanese related sports associations continued to refresh their lower limits, including the Japan Table Tennis Association, the Japan Badminton Association, the Japan Volleyball Association, etc. What's even more ridiculous is that they felt that the jokes weren't enough. The Japanese Olympic Committee and the referee team also came out to show off their skills, and they all "delivered their own excellence" in the Olympics.

Although our women's football team and women's volleyball team were also eliminated early, they behaved upright, at least they did not talk nonsense or do things that ruined their character. We can accept their low point at this time because they walked out of the game with their heads held high.