Original title: China Women's Basketball Team has confirmed 9 high-level warm-up matches for the Paris Olympic Games

China news agency, Beijing, May 24 - The Chinese women's basketball team, which is preparing for the Paris Olympic Games, has confirmed nine high-level warm-up matches against Australia, Japan, Spain and France, which are ranked third in the world.

On the 23rd local time, the FIBA updated the warm-up schedule of 12 women's basketball teams from late June to the Paris Olympic Games. Among them, the Chinese women's basketball team will play against Spain in the group match of the Paris Olympic Games in Vigo, Spain, on June 23; On July 3 and 5, they played two matches with Australia in Melbourne; On July 21, the last warm-up match before the Paris Olympic Games was held with the host team, France.

Recently, the Chinese basketball team has officially announced that the Chinese women's basketball team will play five warm-up matches in China from the end of May to the first ten days of June - on May 29, May 31 and June 2, the Chinese women's basketball team will play three games with visiting Australian teams in Benxi and Shenyang, Liaoning respectively; On June 5 and June 7, the Chinese women's basketball team will move to Xi'an, Shaanxi, to play two games against Japan, an old Asian opponent. Therefore, before the Paris Olympic Games, the Chinese women's basketball team will participate in at least nine high-level warm-up matches.

The Chinese women's basketball team preparing for the Paris Olympic Games assembled on May 5, and 17 players were included in the training list. However, Li Yueru, a famous Chinese women's basketball player who plays for the Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA, has not returned to China for the training.

According to Zheng Wei, the head coach of the Chinese women's basketball team, after this concentration, the Chinese women's basketball team took the lead in physical training and technical strengthening for a period of time. From the end of May, several warm-up matches were held in China to find out their own problems through the games, summarize them, and solve them pertinently. Then the team will go abroad to communicate with the world's top teams to further adapt the team lineup.

The women's basketball competition of the Paris Olympic Games will start on July 28 local time. At present, the grouping situation of the 12 teams has been revealed. At present, the world's second ranked Chinese women's basketball team is in Group A with Spain, Serbia and Puerto Rico. It should not be a big problem for the team to qualify.