Lang vying to be China's women coach

Lang Ping has been considered as the best one to lead the national women's volleyball team.

Lang Ping, a sports heroine who helped the 1984 women's team capture Olympic gold, is among four candidates vying to take charge of the national women's team, the Chinese volleyball administrative center said on Monday.

Lang, known as the "Iron Hammer" during her playing days, along with Cai Bin, also a former Chinese national head coach, New Zealand men's team coach Jiang Jie and Liu Changcheng, made their bid presentations to a panel of officials and experts at a closed-door meeting in Beijing on Monday.

"We will analyze their presentations carefully after the meeting and make a decision based on their capabilities," said Pan Zhichen, newly-appointed director of the Chinese volleyball administrative center. "Hopefully, we will announce our pick in a week."

Lang, 52, led the Chinese women to five world championships in the 1980s and a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics. Later, she coached the women to a silver medal at the 1996 Olympics and a silver at the 1998 World Championships. She then spent six years coaching in Italy before replacing Japan's Toshi Yoshida as the US women's coach in late 2004.

In 2009, Lang returned to coach Guangdong Hengda, the first privately funded club in China.

"Whether or not I will be selected doesn't matter at all. What I want to do is to give my advice to the national team, and contribute to the renaissance of Chinese women's volleyball," Lang said after the meeting.

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