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2022年世界女排联赛1/4决赛昨晚继续在土耳其安卡拉举行。

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Ronald Sakolsky fills a jar with sand from the Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia, planning to bring it back to the US, on August 24, 2026. Photo: Lin Xiaoyi
On Monday afternoon, Ronald Sakolsky, an American teacher, set foot once again on the soil of the Mu Us Desert, in the Uxin Banner of Ordos, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He first came here in 2000. Back then, the land was little more than drifting sand. Today, it is green with trees – a transformation driven by decades of local effort.
He stood within Sakolsky Forest, a woodland formally named to honor his early donation toward local ecological restoration. There, he carried out a plan he had held long before this trip: filling a jar with sand from the desert to bring home to the US.
More than two decades ago, sand was the one thing this place had in abundance. In 1999, when Sakolsky arrived in China as a participant in a bilateral teacher exchange program, he was moved by the tireless efforts of Chinese desert fighter Yin Yuzhen and her husband to curb desertification in the Mu Us Desert. He raised $5,000 – equivalent in 1999 to three years of income for Yin’s entire family – to fund their local tree-planting initiative.
The young saplings bought with that donation have since matured into more than 50,000 full-grown trees, transforming the once desolate, sandy wasteland into a thriving green landscape.
When Sakolsky met Yin at the airport on Sunday, 26 years after his first visit to Inner Mongolia, he joked that he could not take a tree from the Mu Us Desert, but he could slip some sand into his shoes and carry a piece of the land back with him. Now, he had found exactly the sand he wanted – not just any sand, but from a place where persistence had turned desert into life, and where his own name had become part of that story.
“Promise is a promise,” he said. “Ms. Yin made a promise, and she fulfilled it.”
For Sakolsky, the sand is not just dirt. It is a metaphor, a bridge, a shared ground. He plans to tell his grandchildren what it means. “It’s not just a piece of sand in the jar,” he said. “It’s a jar of love.”
He used the jar of sand to symbolize that America and China share a relationship rooted in the same soil. He shook the jar, holding its two ends as if they were the two countries, and said that it shows we’re all on the same planet.
There is an old American joke, he noted, that if you dig a hole deep enough, you will eventually reach China. “We’re all on the same planet,” he said.
Earlier that day, while visiting Yin’s home, he spoke about the need for Americans and Chinese to see each other as family. “All Americans should understand that Chinese people and Americans can be family,” he said. “We can transcend differences if we focus on our common ground. We all love our countries, and we all value loyalty and respect – these are the shared virtues we hold dear.”
As for the sand he collected, Sakolsky said he would treat it as a treasure, alongside all his other precious keepsakes from China. He expects to display it in his living room – a daily reminder of the forest that carries his name and the people who made it grow.
。中国女排以1比3不敌意大利女排，无缘总决赛4强，4局的比分是22比25、19比25、26比24和22比25。这样，中国女排以8胜5负结束在世界女排联赛的全部比赛，下一次亮相国际赛场将是9月23日到10月15日在荷兰和波兰举行的女排世锦赛。来自广东女排的23岁替补接应陈佩妍在比赛中短暂登场。

C | 意大利女排过去四年4连败 今年的世界女排联赛由分站赛和总决赛组成，在前三周分站赛中，中国女排8胜4负，在16支参赛队伍中名列第4，并获得总决赛入场券。一共有8支队伍参加本月13日到17日在安卡拉举行的总决赛，上半场的两场1/4决赛，卫冕冠军兼世界第一的美国女排以2比3爆冷不敌塞尔维亚女排，南美劲旅巴西女排以3比1淘汰日本女排。下半区的两场角逐昨晚举行，分别是中国女排对阵意大利女排，以及东道主土耳其女排对阵泰国女排。中意女排是国际赛场上的老对手，尽管意大利女排拥有世界级接应埃格努，但该队上一次战胜中国女排已经是4年前的女排世锦赛半决赛。

D | 进入巴黎奥运周期以后，两队首次交锋在6月的世界女排联赛土耳其安卡拉站，中国女排以3比1获胜。不过，当时包括埃格努在内的意大利女排半数主力尚未归队。意大利女排过去4年对阵中国女排遭遇4连败，该队主教练马赞蒂赛前表示，他对最近几年两队的每次交锋都是印象深刻，他坦言，对新一届中国女排尚在研究中，不过可以肯定的是，在这场1/4决赛上要重点冲击中国女排的一传，让对手无法组织有效的快攻。

E | 中国女排投入世锦赛备战 本场比赛，两队均派出最强阵容，在两大主攻朱婷和张常宁缺席的情况下，中国女排由“00后”主攻李盈莹领衔，其他位置的首发队员包括主攻王云蕗，副攻袁心玥、王媛媛，接应龚翔宇，二传刁琳宇，自由人王唯漪。意大利女排则由接应埃格努领衔，其余场上主力基本都参加过去年的东京奥运会。中国女排开局一度以16比9领先，可惜领先优势在埃格努的发球轮逐渐失去。遭遇“卡轮”的中国女排接连失分并被对手以25比22逆转。以19比25再失一局后，中国女排没有退路，必须拿下第三局。战至24比24之后，李盈莹关键时刻敢于出手，助力中国女排以26比24险胜。第4局，两队多次战平，意大利女排以25比22再胜一局。