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Water Polo at the Aquatics FINA World Championships 2017


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il y a 15 minutes, heywoodu a déclaré:

 

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.

 

Not when it comes to collective sports (and their quotas drain), every olympic collective sport do maintain at least some kind of public interest between olympics in some countries except for women's waterpolo.

 

If you were to judge every other sports according to women's water polo criterias, you could easely double, if not triple the amount  of collective sports at the olympics (men's rink hockey, roller hockey, flag football, the frisbee thing,  netball (womens only obv.) etc.)

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Yeah, that wacky IOC letting in Women's water polo! Next they'll be putting baseball with no countries or something like skateboarding in!

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4 minutes ago, Mkbw50 said:

Yeah, that wacky IOC letting in Women's water polo! Next they'll be putting baseball with no countries or something like skateboarding in!

Women's baseball has no chance of getting on the program. There are like 12 ranked teams and women's softball is already in. However women's baseball did make an appearance at the 2015 Pan American Games (however it won't in 2019).

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42 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

 

Not when it comes to collective sports (and their quotas drain), every olympic collective sport do maintain at least some kind of public interest between olympics in some countries except for women's waterpolo.

 

Women's water polo is no exception in getting some kind of public interesting between Olympics in countries where there's a team that's competitive on an international level. Of course less than bigger sports like basketball (but that's the same for men's water polo), but that's what happens with a sport like water polo that's in general just not very big or popular on a worldwide level.

 

In the top-8/10 level it's apparently more competitive than men's water polo by the way. 

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il y a 2 minutes, heywoodu a déclaré:

Women's water polo is no exception in getting some kind of public interesting between Olympics in countries where there's a team that's competitive on an international level. Of course less than bigger sports like basketball (but that's the same for men's water polo), but that's what happens with a sport like water polo that's in general just not very big or popular on a worldwide level.

 

Men's water polo is allready a fringe olympic sport in my book just hanging there mostly for historic reasons. But at the very least, it means something in a few countries  (former yugoslavian ones, Hungary, Italy to an extent ...)

 

Judging by some of you sport news websites, there is little evidence that women's water polo means anything to anyone in your country outisde of the olympics.

 

Ps: you guys are really into darts :yikes:

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1 minute ago, De_Gambassi said:

 

Men's water polo is allready a fringe olympic sport in my book just hanging there mostly for historic reasons. But at the very least, it means something in a few countries  (former yugoslavian ones, Hungary, Italy to an extent ...)

 

Judging by some of you sport news websites, there is little evidence that women's water polo means anything to anyone in your country outisde of the olympics.

 

Ps: you guys are really into darts :yikes:

There's even some previews, tranfer news etc on the regular Dutch websites now and then :p  (which is a lot more than men's handball, men's/women's basketball and some sports like that)

 

Obviously football is the biggest sport here like in almost every country in the world, I'd say in terms of attention it's followed by cycling, darts, speed skating, Formula 1 (in random order) :p 

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Group D:

:AUS 8-5 :RUS

"That's competitive enough"

Group A:

:CHN 8-9 :CAN

"Wow, a really close match. Maybe it's not so bad after all.

Group C:

:FRA 5-24 :HUN

"Uh..."

Group A:

:ITA 18-4 :BRA

"Nope, no change after all"

As now we come across the world
To share these Games of old
Let all the flags of every land
In brotherhood unfold

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