No-one seems more appropriate than her to pass the spirit of Chinese women's volleyball on to the younger generation and luckily enough, there is already a torch bearer in Zhu Ting. Lang captained the Chinese women's volleyball team that won the gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and then as a coach, led Team China to victory at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Nicknamed the 'Iron Hammer' during her playing days, she is considered one of China's greatest sporting figures. On December 10, Lang Ping celebrated her 59th birthday. For observers, if the world titles won in the 1980s showed the world that China had what it took to become a sports power, achievements earned in the new era are a symbol of China's continued progress and unstoppable preeminence in sport. But, what's different now is that China has become known as a sporting power.
Newer Chinese women's volleyball teams have echoed the success stories enjoyed by teams before them.
