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Water Polo at the Aquatics FINA World Championships 2017

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The problem is not the total number of quotas, but the distribution of continental ones...Australia will get easy quotas as always and South Africa is probably already qualified without playing a match (let's hope they refuse the quotas)

 

South Africa has been refusing water polo quotas since 1964 (well, 1992 in fact, but still). :p

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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

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Great match for water polo, this sport needs matches like this one. With lots of goals, tension and great sportsmanship.    Congrats! I'm not mad at all, our guys won when it matted most (in

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24-2, 16-1. 10-2. I think 8 teams are more than enough on the Summer Olympic Games from these teams.

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32 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

South Africa has been refusing water polo quotas since 1964. :p

Nice, another reason to not give them free quotas anymore...otherwise they can still use the quota as a bargaining chip for something else...plus nobody can be completely sure that they will continue to refuse.

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1 godzinę temu, Dunadan napisał:

The problem is not the total number of quotas, but the distribution of continental ones...Australia will get easy quotas as always and South Africa is probably already qualified without playing a match (let's hope they refuse the quotas)

well, woman`s team sports in Africa, besides football, are all kind of weak but it is a one of 5 continents according to IOC traditions. Distribution in Africa will always be "unfair" to other areas but this is olympics - i got used to it

 

Luckily SAF refuses quotas in water polo as in field hockey and even woman`s rugby

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Personally I don't think there should be continental quotas for events with less than 12 entrants. Women's water polo sort of avoids the issue because South Africa declines the quota and Australia and China are good enough so that no one complains, outside of them getting a free spot. Women's team synchronized swimming doesn't hold too well as both Australia and Egypt are significantly weaker and if the host nation is also weak then you essentially have 5 nation competing for 3 medals.

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