Women's Water Polo Tournament at the Summer Olympic Games 2020

[Makedonas 2,133]

29-4 in the end. No surprise. At least Greece would've been competitive. I don't see how this helps South Africa to lose every game by huge margins.

[maestro 644]

Some interesting facts from today.

 

USA set three new records for the olympics in their 25-4 win against Japan. Most goals scored in a match with 25, most goals scored in one half with 14 and biggest goal difference with 21.

 

All these records were broken again afterwards by Spain. 29 goals scored, 15 in a half, and 25 goal difference.

 

Maggie Steffens scored five goals against Japan. Now she has 43 goals in the olympics and needs another five to become the top goalscorer in olympic history.

 

35 goals in China-ROC set a record for the most goals in a single match in the olympics, without penalty shoot out.

[heywoodu 14,952]

6 hours ago, maestro said:

35 goals in China-ROC set a record for the most goals in a single match in the olympics, without penalty shoot out.

That one was fun  

 

Normally that amount of goals would mean a total blowout, I can't remember two teams both getting close to 20  

[Vektor 3,326]

The refs gave the draw to  against us, disgusting. Now the goal difference will decide the 2nd place in the group. 

[Vektor 3,326]

Holy shit, we actually did it.  v   10-9

 

First defeat for the US at the Games since 2008. 

[Vektor 3,326]

I wonder what       think about this situation, I am pretty sure that they thought the 1st place in their group means that they will avoid the  until the final. 

[Federer91 2,728]

17 minutes ago, Vektor said:

I wonder what       think about this situation, I am pretty sure that they thought the 1st place in their group means that they will avoid the  until the final. 

It probably means, who can outfox the rest into not getting first place. 

[pdr4332 218]

16 minutes ago, Vektor said:

I wonder what       think about this situation, I am pretty sure that they thought the 1st place in their group means that they will avoid the  until the final. 

But our first place in the group is not sure until we dont beat China in the last match (not sure thing even now IMO). And unfortunately, as the 2017 WCh showed, we can lose even to Canada in the knockout stage....
Something big might have the chance of happening, but I will not believe it until we won the semifinal (thereby assuring at least silver) or the bronze match...

[PHI2019 262]

 just defeated  33-1 in women’s water polo. I don’t recall there being a more lopsided score in the sport at the Olympics than this one.

[Vektor 3,326]

36 minutes ago, PHI2019 said:

 just defeated  33-1 in women’s water polo. I don’t recall there being a more lopsided score in the sport at the Olympics than this one.

This is just ridiculous. Either FINA or IOC has to make a call here after the Games because this can't happen again. It's shameful that  is here with such a team.