Water Polo Qualification for Summer Olympic Games 2016

[Timsa 1]

Just now, De_Gambassi said:

 

It seems that both french and canadians agree with the dutch federation.

Because it's true. We are definitely second in the group after Italy, because of those strange FINA rules. The rules say: first place is for the team with the best head-2-head goal difference. And then the second place is for the team that won against the other tied ranked team. And because Netherlands won again Spain they are second and not Spain.

 

Therefore France and Canada are trying as hard as they can to not win at the moment. France is trying harder, because it's 3-1 for Canada and almost halftime. 

[De_Gambassi 1,223]

Just now, Timsa said:

Because it's true. We are definitely second in the group after Italy, because of those strange FINA rules. The rules say: first place is for the team with the best head-2-head goal difference. And then the second place is for the team that won against the other tied ranked team. And because Netherlands won again Spain they are second and not Spain.

 

Therefore France and Canada are trying as hard as they can to not win at the moment. France is trying harder, because it's 3-1 for Canada and almost halftime. 

 

Ok, thank you for the explanation. Sadly enough, it's the first time in decades that water polo is broadcasted live on french tv and we end up with such a travesty.

[dcro 10,210]

France is a bit too obvious with their strategy, 6:2 for Canada at the moment. I hope they won't make it to the Olympics.

Edited April 7, 2016 by dcro

[dareza 911]

I will chear for Netherlands because one of their best players, Gielen are memeber of Serbian club.

[NearPup 3,045]

The Netherlands being second makes absolutely no sense. Bleh. Not happy about finishing second only to have to playoff against Spain...

[LDOG 2,418]

Strongly cheering against Spain just so our traitor player doesn't play the olympics.

[OlympicsFan 858]

Another disgrace for sport, now i really hope that the dutch team will qualify and France hopefully will fail. It really reminds me of womens volleyball qualification event earlier this year. I hope that our team wont qualify, which is very unlikely anyway, otherwise the funding wont be cut and we will waste even more money for a dead sport. If you want to go to the olympics, then you have to earn it. Water polo is by far the weakest team sport, so if you cant even qualify in water polo, you dont deserve any funding at all.

[lapaj 379]

Good from the Hungarian born players!

[AmericanHero40 213]

anyone have any live feed for this? mainly for tomorrow's qualification games

[hckošice 14,822]

Men's Final Olympic Qualification

Tournament

Trieste (ITA) - 03.04.2016 - 10.04.2016

 

Preliminary Round

12 Nations, 2 Groups, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Nations will Qualify to Quarterfinals

 

Day 5 Results

 

Group A

France  5 - 13  Canada    

(Score by Period: 0-1, 1-2, 2-4, 2-6)

7h April 2016, h. 13:50 (GMT +2), Polo Natatorio, Trieste

 

Hungary  16 - 7  Slovakia      

(Score by Period : 5-4, 5-1, 2-1, 4-1)

7h April 2016, h. 15:10 (GMT +2), Polo Natatorio, Trieste

 

Russia  8 - 8  Romania    

(Score by Period : 3-1, 1-3, 3-3, 1-1)

7h April 2016, h. 16:30 (GMT +2), Polo Natatorio, Trieste

 

 

Group A Final Standing

RANK	NATION	GAME	WINS	DRAW	LOST	GF	GR	GD	POINTS
1	Hungary	5	4	1	0	73	44	+29	9
2	Canada	5	3	2	0	55	44	+11	8
3	France	5	3	0	2	46	56	-10	6
4	Romania	5	1	2	2	50	53	-3	4
5	Russia	5	1	1	3	40	49	-9	3
6	Slovakia	5	0	0	5	39	57	-18	0

 

 

Group B

 

Spain  16 - 4  Kazakhstan    

(Score by Period: 3-2, 3-1, 7-0, 3-1)

7h April 2016, h. 17:50 (GMT +2), Polo Natatorio, Trieste

 

Netherlands  17 - 7  South Africa      

(Score by Period : 4-2, 3-3, 4-0, 6-2)

7h April 2016, h. 19:10 (GMT +2), Polo Natatorio, Trieste

 

Italy  12 - 6  Germany    

(Score by Period : 1-1, 4-1, 4-1, 3-3)

7h April 2016, h. 20:30 (GMT +2), Polo Natatorio, Trieste

 

 

Group B Standing

RANK	NATION	GAME	WINS	DRAW	LOST	GF	GR	GD	POINTS
1	Italy	5	4	0	1	67	26	+41	8
2	Netherlands	5	4	0	1	46	36	+10	8
3	Spain	5	4	0	1	55	25	+30	8
4	Germany	5	1	1	3	53	46	+7	3
5	Kazakhstan	5	1	1	3	34	55	-21	3
6	South Africa	5	0	0	5	21	88	-67	0

 

 

 

Qualified Nations for Quarterfinals

• Canada
• France
• Germany
• Hungary
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Romania
• Spain

 

 

Edited April 7, 2016 by hckosice