Every Chinese, who experienced 1980s, will remember forever the day November 6th 1981 when the China National Women’s Volleyball Team beat the Japan National Team with 3 to 2 at the 3rd World Women’s Volleyball Cup in Osaka Japan. When the news was reported, people felt very excited.

In August 1984, the China National Women’s Volleyball Team beat successively (连续地) the Japan National Team and the US National Team with 3 to 0, and won the gold medal again at the 23rd Olympic Games, which realized the “Triple Crown” (三连冠) dream at the world matches. The pride head coach of Japan National Team said, “Beating China National Women’s Volleyball Team is equal to block (摧毁) the Yangtze River. Both are impossible.

As the fast development of other countries’ volleyball, the China National Women’s Volleyball Team had lost parts of their advantages for a period. In early 1995, Lang Ping, the most important player, became the head coach of the China National Women’s Volleyball Team. Though it’s very hard to train these young players in such a short time, she made it. The China National Women’s Volleyball Team won the bronze (铜) medal at the 7th World Cups at the end of 1995. Then they won the silver medal at the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, and the gold medal at the 13th Asian Games in 1998 and the Athens Olympic Games in 2004. However, after that, the women’s volleyball team had experienced the bad time. The China National Women’s Volleyball Team started to fall.

In Rio Olympic Games, the China National Women’s Volleyball Team brought the greatest surprise, these young girls beat the rival (对手) in a very disadvantaged situation and won the champion (冠军) finally. The spirit of this traditional team was mentioned again and people were touched. This victory was achieved because of Lang Ping’s expert efforts as the head coach. The public and newspaper praised her and said she set the “spirit of women’s volleyball” in a young team again. They never give up and return to the top.