Water Polo at the Aquatics FINA World Championships 2017

[De_Gambassi 1,281]

Sur 16/07/2017 at 18:31 , Mkbw50 a déclaré:

Wow. 16-1 win for over in Group C

 

Such densiity. Trully a sport worthy of the olympics.

[Mkbw50 462]

with a much more respectable performance, still lose 8-6 to ...

[Mkbw50 462]

19-5

Definitely not the best advert for the sport...

[heywoodu 16,182]

3 hours ago, De_Gambassi said:

 

Such densiity. Trully a sport worthy of the olympics.

Definitely, although this many teams is just stupid. There's 8-10 teams who can actually fight and so 10 teams would be good for the Olympics. 16 teams is a little too much.

[heywoodu 16,182]

Netherlands beating France 17-2, beating Japan 20-8, when is someone gonna give our team a hard time?  

[De_Gambassi 1,281]

il y a 3 minutes, heywoodu a déclaré:

Definitely, although this many teams is just stupid. There's 8-10 teams who can actually fight and so 10 teams would be good for the Olympics. 16 teams is a little too much.

 

If your 14th best team (last world championship ranking) is losing 17-2 against anyone, your sport has no business beeing an olympic sport. Period.

 

Women's water polo is only there because of "gender equity" policy, not because of sports.

 

Besides, lack of compettive teams is one thing, lack of public nterest and pathetic low playing numbers even from competitive countries is another thing. 

[dcro 10,210]

However, women's water polo has seen 10 different nations on World Championships podium between 2009 and 2015.

 

Unthinkable in men's game... Men's game has had 9 different nations on podium throughout the whole WCh history (1973-2015).

[heywoodu 16,182]

13 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

 

If your 14th best team (last world championship ranking) is losing 17-2 against anyone, your sport has no business beeing an olympic sport. Period.

 

Women's water polo is only there because of "gender equity" policy, not because of sports.

 

Besides, lack of compettive teams is one thing, lack of public nterest and pathetic low playing numbers even from competitive countries is another thing. 

 

Last world championship ranking is not exactly a good thing to look at, since there you had the same problem with non-competitive teams competing. The main point: for a 8-10 team tournament it's perfectly justified to have women's water polo there. Public interest depends entirely on the success of teams, like in almost any sport. Here nobody gives a damn about men's water polo for example.

 

Besides, in men's water polo isn't it basically always the same few teams who dominate? That's getting a little tiring. 

 

 

Edited July 18, 2017 by heywoodu

[heywoodu 16,182]

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

However, women's water polo has seen 10 different nations on World Championships podium between 2009 and 2015.

 

Unthinkable in men's game... Men's game has had 9 different nations on podium throughout the whole WCh history (1973-2015).

That's even less than I thought....now that's quite pathetic actually   

 

Only two nations more than korfball  

[Mkbw50 462]