On August 21st, China’s Wang Jie saved the ball in the game. On the same day, at the Beijing Olympic Gamesbeach volleyballIn the women’s championship and runner-up, China’s Wang Jie/Tian Jia lost 0-2 to American Kelly? Walsh/Misty? May treanor won the second place. Xinhua News Agency reporter Shadati photo
CCTV News: At 11: 00 am on August 21st, Beijing time, the battle for the women’s beach volleyball championship in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games kicked off at the beach volleyball court in Chaoyang Park. Tian Jia/Wang Jie fought hard for 45 minutes, and finally lost to the American group Kelly Walsh/Misty May treanor 0-2, and won the silver medal in the Olympic women’s beach volleyball. The scores of the two games were 18-21 and 18-21 respectively.
China’s Tian Jia/Wang Jie ranked second in the World Beach Volleyball Tour in 2006 and 2007 respectively, and won the sub-station champion of the World Beach Volleyball Tour in Poland in 2006 and Shanghai in 2007, and won the runner-up in the 2007 World Championships. The American group Walsh/May-treanor won the gold medal in this event at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
Tian Jia/Wang Jie narrowly defeated China’s Xue Chen/Zhang Xi 2-1 in the semi-final, and the scores of the three sets were 22-24, 29-27 and 15-8. However, in the other semi-final, the American group Kelly Walsh/Misty May treanor fought fiercely for two games, beating the Brazilian group Talita/renata 2-0, and the results of the two games were 21-12 and 21-14 respectively.
In the first game, Tian Jia’s second position directly spiked the ball and scored directly. China’s team led the opponent 5-3 at the beginning. Subsequently, Wang Jie made a mistake in serving directly out of bounds, and China was temporarily behind with a score of 7-8. Then, Wang Jie made a mistake in receiving the service directly over the net, and the American combination probe ball scored directly, keeping the lead with a score of 12-10.
Since then, Mei treanor’s No.2 position has succeeded in nudging the back row, and the American team rewrote the score to 16-15. With Walsh tapping the neutral position at the fourth position to score again, the American team easily took a 20-17 lead to get the point. At the crucial moment, Mei-treanor’s fourth straight line attack succeeded, and the American team won the first game with 21-18.
In the second game, Mei-treanor’s No.2 straight-line attacker scored out of bounds, and the American team took a temporary lead of 7-5. Subsequently, Tian Jia made a strong jump serve twice and succeeded directly. China’s team stubbornly overtook the score to 9-8. Then, Tian Jia’s fourth position smashed the ball diagonally again, and China changed the score to 12-11.
Since then, Mei-treanor’s No.4 straight-line hitter went out of bounds and scored directly, and the American team rewrote the score to 16-15. With Wang Jie’s direct out-of-bounds mistake in the fourth position, the American team won the match point with a lead of 20-18. At the crucial moment, Mei treanor scored a direct score with a diagonal smash, and the American combination Walsh/Mei treanor finally locked the score at 21-18, and then beat China’s combination Tian Jia/Wang Jie 2-0 to successfully defend the Olympic women’s beach volleyball champion.
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