Text/Yangcheng Evening News All-Media Reporter Zhou Fangping
FIBA announced today on its official website that after consultation with the International Olympic Committee , it has confirmed the new men’s basketball Olympic qualifying time - June 29 to July 2021 On the 4th, 24 teams, including the Chinese team, will compete for the last four Olympic tickets.
Head coach Du Feng (fifth from left) and the Chinese men’s basketball players
According to FIBA, during the negotiations with the International Olympic Committee, the competition tasks of the participating players, the preparations of each team and the preparation work of each team were fully considered. The schedule of national and regional leagues, combined with the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, will finally determine the new competition date with the approval of the International Olympic Committee.
FIBA also announced that the original groupings will remain unchanged. The Olympic qualifying tournaments for the four divisions of
will be held in Canada, Croatia, Lithuania and Serbia respectively. The Chinese team is assigned to the Canadian division. Its opponents in the same group include Greece and Canada. If it can qualify as the group leader, it will have to compete with the Czech Republic, The winner between Turkey and Uruguay will compete for the only ticket to the Tokyo Olympics in this division.
What is good for the Chinese team is that the postponement of the men's basketball Olympic qualifying tournament is very likely to collide with next year's NBA schedule. NBA stars such as the Greek team's " Antetokounmpo " Antetokounmpo and Canada's Murray may Missed the qualifying round. However, with the strength of the Chinese team, even if these stars do not participate, it will be very difficult to qualify from this division.
So far, in addition to the host Japanese team , 7 teams have directly qualified for the Basketball World Cup held in China last year.
source | Yangchengpai
editor | Xu Yangyang
review | Wei Liyuan
intern | Li Shuhui
