De_Gambassi 942 Posted July 18, 2017 #41 Share Posted July 18, 2017 (edited) 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.) Edited July 18, 2017 by De_Gambassi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mkbw50 385 Posted July 18, 2017 #42 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Yeah, that wacky IOC letting in Women's water polo! Next they'll be putting baseball with no countries or something like skateboarding in! As now we come across the world To share these Games of old Let all the flags of every land In brotherhood unfold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,567 Posted July 18, 2017 #43 Share Posted July 18, 2017 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,742 Posted July 18, 2017 #44 Share Posted July 18, 2017 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. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
De_Gambassi 942 Posted July 18, 2017 #45 Share Posted July 18, 2017 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,742 Posted July 18, 2017 #46 Share Posted July 18, 2017 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 There's even some previews, tranfer news etc on the regular Dutch websites now and then (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) If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapaj 315 Posted July 18, 2017 #47 Share Posted July 18, 2017 Hun 24-5 FRA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoversaBR 285 Posted July 18, 2017 #48 Share Posted July 18, 2017 HT: 11-2 This team is weaker than I expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dareza 911 Posted July 19, 2017 Author #49 Share Posted July 19, 2017 lol what is this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mkbw50 385 Posted July 19, 2017 #50 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Group D: 8-5 "That's competitive enough" Group A: 8-9 "Wow, a really close match. Maybe it's not so bad after all. Group C: 5-24 "Uh..." Group A: 18-4 "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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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