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22 hours ago, Monzanator said:

 

Right. Does any channel actually broadcast water polo matches in USA outside of the Olympics? :lol:

 

Same can be said for any sport, the olympic channel shows world league, world championships, volleyball is not even that, it's on flosports. main channels are almost the big 4 sports(nfl,nba,mlb,nhl), premier league and mls, college football, nascar. But if you want to catch anything outside of those you'll probably find it on the olympic channel

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1 hour ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

 

Same can be said for any sport, the olympic channel shows world league, world championships, volleyball is not even that, it's on flosports. main channels are almost the big 4 sports(nfl,nba,mlb,nhl), premier league and mls, college football, nascar. But if you want to catch anything outside of those you'll probably find it on the olympic channel

 

In other words nobody gives a damn about water polo. USA doesn't care about volleyball, you don't even have a league outside of the NCAA system. If anyone wants to make money from this he/she must either go on the beach or travel to Europe/Asia to play indoors.

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1 hour ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

 

Same can be said for any sport, the olympic channel shows world league, world championships, volleyball is not even that, it's on flosports. main channels are almost the big 4 sports(nfl,nba,mlb,nhl), premier league and mls, college football, nascar. But if you want to catch anything outside of those you'll probably find it on the olympic channel

I have three different, perfectly legal and free ways to watch luge (German TV, Eurosport and FIL) here in the Netherlands. Doesn't mean anyone outside of a handful of rare fans gives a crap about it :p 

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11 hours ago, Monzanator said:

 

In other words nobody gives a damn about water polo. USA doesn't care about volleyball, you don't even have a league outside of the NCAA system. If anyone wants to make money from this he/she must either go on the beach or travel to Europe/Asia to play indoors.

If you're talking country wide no one cares about anything beyond the main sports outside of Olympics. But still I wouldnt put water polo in the same sentence as handball.  

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19 minutes ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

If you're talking country wide no one cares about anything beyond the main sports outside of Olympics. But still I wouldnt put water polo in the same sentence as handball.  

 

Yeah, I'm well aware handball is completely non-existent in USA. It's probably the most European-centered team sport anyway.

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6 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

Yeah, I'm well aware handball is completely non-existent in USA. It's probably the most European-centered team sport anyway.

Will be interesting to see if usa can put some sort of competitive teams in 2028.  Or maybe ihf will force them to qualify 

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2 hours ago, Monzanator said:

 

Yeah, I'm well aware handball is completely non-existent in USA. It's probably the most European-centered team sport anyway.

Men’s Water Polo, Floorball, and Fistball are completely Euro-centric too.

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1 hour ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

Will be interesting to see if usa can put some sort of competitive teams in 2028.  Or maybe ihf will force them to qualify 

I have hope for the women, the men...

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