Live broadcast bar News on May 23 according to media person @ Shao huaqian, FIBA announced the policy of the Olympic qualifying competition on last October, which was not temporarily changed in the near future.
The original text is as follows:
A few days ago, I recorded a podcast that China women’s basketball temporarily recruited members such as Yang Liwei, Li Meng and Han Xu to participate in the Asian Cup. After recording, I was still thinking that the Basketball Association was forced to pay a lot of money to Zhou Zhang, is it really because the so-called International Basketball Federation temporarily changed the Olympic qualifying rules? Are foreigners really so unreliable?
It was later discovered that it was not.
Today, I participated in the regulations on the women’s basketball qualifying rules on the Olympic official website with a colleague. It was said: “There will be four teams who will qualify from the Asian region Olympic Games qualifier, participate in the Olympic qualifier.”
However, there is actually such a sentence in the document. I circle this big paragraph, “note: FIBA Central Bureau has the right to decide whether to hold the Olympic women’s basketball qualifier before June 1, 2023. if it is not held, the number of teams participating in the Olympic qualifying matches will depend on the Cup matches of all continents in 2023.”
As far as Asia is concerned, it is the policy to be implemented now: No Olympic qualifier will be held, and the top four Asian Cup will directly participate in the Olympic qualifier.
However, this document was actually published in October 2022, so this pot cannot be fully deducted to FIBA. After all, people declared in advance, but this statement was ignored.
Related news: the basketball association hopes that all WNBA players such as Yang Liwei will return in time due to the change of the Olympic qualification system.