Posts by samsara

This tournament will be hosted not in the capital city (Jakarta), but in Surabaya (East Java), the second largest city, located app. 700 km east to Jakarta (1.5-hour flight).

COMPETITION FORMAT: 2025 FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship

https://en.volleyballworld.com…nship/competition/formula

2025 Age Group Competition Format

The 24 participating teams are split into FOUR single round-robin pools of SIX TEAMS each for the first stage of the 2025 FIVB Volleyball Women's U21 World Championship.

The TOP FOUR TEAMS in the final standings of each pool advance to the EIGHTHFINALS.

The eight eighthfinal winners advance to the quarterfinals.

The eight eighthfinal losers continue their participation in the playoffs for the distribution of the places from ninth to 16th.

The bottom two teams in the final standings of each pool continue their participation in the playoffs for the distribution of the places from 17th to 24th.

All 24 teams go through another three rounds of direct up-or-down matches (quarterfinals, semifinals and final for the winners; playoffs and classification matches for the losers) to fill all the places from first to 24th in the final competition standings.

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Live Streams of Day 4 of 2024 Chinese National Championship:

https://weibo.com/l/wblive/p/s…22:2321325078441211855134

Note: Not only Live streaming but also REPLAY watching is available at this Weibo link... duration: 8 hours 52 minutes so it comprises of several matches.

1st Match 00:02:52 Henan vs Tianjin

2nd Match 02:34:26 Beijing vs Zhejiang

3rd Match 04:28:55 Shanghai vs Jiangsu

4th Match 07:18:10 Liaoning vs Sichuan

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The results of the qualifier of 1st Chinese National Junior 3-Bigball (football, basketball and volleyball) Meeting:

Day 5 and Day 6

Wow, Inner Mongolia team beat Fujian team 3-2 after trailing two sets, the full reversal (17-25, 10-25, 25-20, 25-19, 15-9) to my great surprise... I don't know the grassland team is somehow good in volleyball 😆 I hope I can find the match in Chinese video platform. Translation is using the Camera function of Baidu Translate app, which can be downloaded at stores or directly from Baidu website: https://fanyi.baidu.com/

This sports channel has uploaded some Women's Volleyball matches (full match in 1080p) of the Chengdu Universiade (FISU) and Hangzhou Asian Games. Go and check if interested:

https://www.youtube.com/@SportChina

Both the head coaches of the Junior squads Kuang Qi and Zhao Yong could be a better and more effective choice for the senior NT team than the present one.

Here's a player list of the U17 team in Lima, Peru for archive purpose, couldn't find a better, more informative list with embedded player pics.

Btw, there were many Chinese supporters in the final match in Lima, looked like a huge Chinese society in Peru, seemed to be exceeding even the local Japanese descent supporters there, a country whereas Alberto Fujimori once be its president.

Here's a 4K footage of 35 minutes of the final match, differs from the VBVT one

CHINA 🆚 JAPAN: [4K] Epic U17 Women's Volleyball Final 2024 - A Clash of Skill, Speed, and Strength!

Uploaded at BREAKING BARRIERS SPORT channel

CHINA 🇨🇳: FIRST GIRLS' #FIVBU17 CHAMPIONS 🏆

History was made for 🇨🇳 as they won 🥇 in the inaugural edition of the Girls’ U17 World Championships. They dominated the tournament, dropping only one set 🔥. Captain Shuming Yang led the team with 20 points in their 3-0 victory (25-19, 25-22, 25-18) over Japan 🇯🇵 in the final. Italy 🇮🇹 secured the bronze medal.

📺 Watch the replays FREE ON VBTV:

https://tv.volleyballworld.com/competition-groups/VSuknwJg

Until I saw the tweet of Volleyball World @volleyballworld, I thought it needed subscription to watch the U17 WCH matches... indeed it's gratis!

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Btw VBTV Girl's U17 World Championship Replay video are just available for some matches, I hope it's just technical matter that they have not completed the whole upload, the replay now covers the end part, from final to QF to some group matches. No CHN v TUR replay, yet.

https://tv.volleyballworld.com/competition-groups/VSuknwJg

I think they now have completed the uploads, all matches seem to be available

Age Groups World Championships (volleyballworld.com)

Gold Medal Match: 2024 Asian Eastern Zonal Women's Volleyball Championship - China vs Japan (Hosted in Hong Kong, 2024.08.18)

Full match at 1080P incl. the Award Ceremony

Uploaded by Volleyball Association of Hong Kong, China 中國香港排球總會

https://www.youtube.com/live/GSrmei7BTS4

There are more matches of this tournament at the 'Live' section:

https://www.youtube.com/@volle…ociationofhon4967/streams

One more time, Dong Yuhan (2) made an impact when she came to the court, substituted Guo Xiangling (5) in the set 2, overturned the table, from trailing to leading.

From then on Dong played throughout the match. This scene is a just like the déjà vu of the Gold Medal Match of China vs Japan at the 22nd Asian Women's U20 Volleyball Championship not long ago.

The starters: both Wang Aoqian (11) and Li Chenxuan (4) remained outstanding as in their preceding continental tournament; Fan Boning (1) also contributed a lot.

The Japanese team, as usual, showed a strong defensive play, not easy to kill their balls, presented an interesting match, entertaining for viewers.

Btw, the volleyball court is located in the Lu Mall, not the usual court for volleyball, the bigger one for hosting the VNL match in HK.

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I may sound cynical but why do I feel this u17 team could've done better than the senior team at the Olympics ?

Easy explanation, major volleyball countries do not focus so much on the age group competitions unlike China and Japan, and perhaps Italy, Turkiye are still paying some attention. Where are Serbia, USA, Poland, Netherlands here? There are many strong senior European teams, but much less visible in this age group, prolly they just ignored the U17 🤔

Btw VBTV Girl's U17 World Championship Replay video are just available for some matches, I hope it's just technical matter that they have not completed the whole upload, the replay now covers the end part, from final to QF to some group matches. No CHN v TUR replay, yet.

https://tv.volleyballworld.com/competition-groups/VSuknwJg

I read some sport news about the Chinese Olympic delegation being received by President Xi, it shortly mentioned that Cai Bin would get some award or appreciation from the Shanghai Sports authority among a dozen or so players and coaches, which incl. Fan Zhendong, swimmer Qin Haiyang, and so on 😛😅 I wish a better NT coach but have no idea on who's that person could be. Deep in my thought... why not call Lang Ping to return to guide the team for one more cycle or so while at the same time preparing the next head coach? Unless Lang really refuses for very strong personal reasons, it should be tried. Lang is just 63 yo, Roberto is 70. The private sector wastes so much money for football and basketball, why not some rich allocates a portion for the volleyball incl. some bonus for the coach? After all the 2021 Tokyo fiasco is a fateful virus fiasco, once in a lifetime, possibly once in many centuries.

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Please see the new matches:

The wide roster of Chinese U17 NT for 2024 U17 WCH:

S - Zhang Zi-xuan, Zhu Zan, Wang Yi-bo (also OP)

OP - Jia Jing-ya, Yang Shu-ming, Wang Yi-ran, Yang Ke-xin

OH - Sun Hong-yun, Zhang Yu-xin, Huang Qing-ge, Huang Yue-xin, Feng Lin-lin (also L), Chang Zi-xin, Han Wan-shuo

MB - Chen Xiao-hui, Guo Zhong-nan, Si Jing-yu, Song Zi-ning, Qiao Xi

L - Li Ming-jing

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FIVB Volleyball Girls' U17 World Championship - Schedule and Results

https://en.volleyballworld.com…dule/#fromDate=2024-08-17

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China best chance of getting to the podium was Tokyo Olympics. Too bad a handful of the core NT players were injured especially ZT. If All were healthy, there was a big possibility 🇨🇳 could win. This Paris Olympics, the players were not as good as they were perhaps most have past their peak and they are not physically injured free.

Call it a "fate" factor, "virus" factor... if the Tokyo's event was held on schedule in a normal world, the outcome might be quite different. Keep in mind the country was among the very first victims (along with Iran), and faced very serious threat, I call it an existential one at that time, it almost collapsed the whole nation and its economy in the worst case scenario. Enuff said. Just forget not.

Congratulations to the Italian team for winning the Gold Medal, the first ever, even the FIRST EVER MEDAL in Women's Volleyball in Olympic Games 👏 🥇🏅🪙

Italy has a great, healthy team, in every function, even more with the inclusion of Ekaterina (24)... Just a perfect moment for the victorious Italian team. Happy for their breakthrough!

25-18, 25-20, 25-17

Best wishes for the Chinese team, wish the team will redeem its total failure in Tokyo OG, and overcome the Turkish team, now reinforced by Melissa Vargas! I hope Zhu is fine. I also wish Serbia will overcome Italy as it did many times. If Chinese team advances into SF, better to face Serbia than Italy. I don't care about Cai Bin but care for the Chinese team! At least I hope the team will be on podium, also a sweet medal farewell to Zhu in Olympics.

My predictions:

BRA 3-1 DOM

SRB 3-2 ITA

POL 3-2 USA

CHN 3-1 TUR

VK LIVE CHN vs FRA!!!

Just to liven up this thread... as well as a reminder not to miss the entertaining light match 😁 I hope the team will field some substitute players ZCN / WMJ GY DX ZYX... resting the main guns LYY ZT GXY YXY/WYY 😛 if those players not playing against France then they may have very little show time or even completely meaningless presence in Paris... anyhow a good kick-off feeling after the 2021 Tokyo doom, unspirited event 🤕 far from satisfactory the current coach, but the team made good decision to leave out WYL, call in ZCN and WMJ and ZYS (back-up)... just no WYL shows the right thing in place. Now hoping the diesel engine will be getting better by each match, up and up!!! Let's see how far the team will go 🙏🏼 (with guarded optimism & high hope)

Women's Preliminary Round - Pool A - Match 12

FRA vs CHN -- Thursday 01 August 2024 21:00 UTC +2 Summer DST (or CEST)

https://olympics.com/en/paris-…eyball/women/gpa-000400--

Around that time, some fascinating medal race swimming disciplines are also at play... Zhang Yufei, Ye Shiwen, team relay... btw anyone watched Pan Zhanle with his WR this early morning hour in Asia? I happened to watch live the super short show, just a couple of minutes affair.

Quote from Phil

They already have 4 points (3 for 3-0 win over France and 1 for the 2-3 game against USA)

It just tells that three teams from Group A will advance into QF due those five-sets, provided no upset made by the host team, which I believe so! The last spot will be NED/DOM or JPN, in that order.

seems to be another sweeping reversal at play

what happens to QF balance if USA loses 2-3 again here?

Chinese team took a post-match group photo on 29 July 2024 after defeating the US team in its opening group match (A) - Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Gang - Paris Olympics 2024

RU VK SPORT

One can save the file of the group match USAvCHN 5.969gig via this VK platform (as posted in Paris OG thread), no geo-mess, I use Yandex browser, just search the particular match in RU lang (when I keyed in using the Eng names, the match not came out), then either watch online or paste it into some file saver tool (JD), which I did.