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	Professional Water Polo \| Water Polo DVDs \| Water Polo Directory \| Water Polo Players \| Water Polo History - History ...
		Water Polo players are indebted to the late W. Henry of the Royal Life its recognition by the Association in 1885.
		The history of water polo as a team sport began as a demonstration of strength and swimming skill in late 19th century England and Scotland, where water sports and racing exhibitions were a feature of county fairs and festivals.
		Water polo is now popular in many countries around the world, notably Europe (particularly in Hungary, Greece, Italy, Russia and the former Yugoslavia), the United States, Canada and Australia.
	www.prowaterpolo.com /water-polo-history.html (3442 words)

	1956 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were held in 1956 in Melbourne, Australia, although the equestrian events could not be held in Australia due to quarantine regulations.
		By the beginning of 1956, though, it was obvious that Melbourne would be ready for the Olympics.
		Because Melbourne is in the southern hemisphere, the Olympics were held later in the year than former Olympics held in the northern hemisphere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1956_Summer_Olympics (1139 words)

	Ontario Water Polo Association
		Water polo is like a combination of soccer, basketball, ice hockey and rugby, played in a deep pool 30 x 20 meters for men and 25 x 20 meters for women.
		Water polo players are not allowed to touch either the sides or the bottom of the pool.
		The first makeshift water polo contests were played in Britain in the 1860s - the sport may thank its inception to the monotony that spectators found in the competitive swim races of the times.
	www.ontariowaterpolo.ca /MoreonWaterPolo.aspx (1918 words)

	About the Game of Water Polo
		Water polo is played by both men and women and is the longest standing team sport in the Olympic Games, having been introduced in Paris in 1900.
		Water polo is the most physically demanding of all team games, requiring top performers to cover up to 3 kilometres in the pool over the 1 hour 15 minutes it takes to complete a game.
		Water polo is like a combination of soccer, basketball, ice hockey and rugby, played in a deep pool 30x20 meters (slightly smaller for women).
	titanswp.hypermart.net /2007/id17.html (1811 words)

	Sacramento Water Polo - Established 1982
		Sacramento Water Polo is a not-for-profit club that is dedicated to improving the quality of water polo throughout the Sacramento area.
		Water polo is now played in many countries around the world, notably in the former Yugoslavia and in Hungary.
		Men's water polo at the Olympics was one of the first team sports introduced at the 1900 games.
	sacpolo.com (251 words)

	Exploring Chinese History :: Special Reports :: Beijing Olympics :: Games
		Priority decisions or goals were clear: to standardize the rules for swimming, diving and water polo; to obtain control of world records and to maintain an up-to-date list of these records; and finally, to ensure the direction of Olympic Games competitions for swimming, diving and water polo.
		Women's water polo was one of the new events at the Sydney 2000 Games, adding another dimension to a game long ranked among the most demanding.
		In fact, water polo began as an aquatic version of rugby in the mid-1800s in England, before evolving into a waterborne semblance of football (soccer).
	www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/07spe/olympics/games.sports.htm (6660 words)

	Athlete Rating - AllSportRating.com - Water Polo Athlete Rating
		Although modern water polo was invented in the late nineteenth century in Great Britain by William Wilson, the game resembles an early African rite of passage into manhood played in rivers (often at the end the river was stained red with blood).
		Men's water polo at the Olympics was the among the first team sports introduced at the 1900 games (along with cricket, rugby, football (soccer), polo (with horses), rowing and tug of war).
		Because of water polo's increased popularity globally, the influence of international coaches like USC's Jovan Vavic from the former Yugoslavia, and the perks of attending an American college, international players are attracted to the premier US colleges.
	allsportrating.com /sport.php?id=22 (1203 words)

	Water Polo
		A leather ball was used in the 1912 Olympics and was very heavy, slippery, and lopsided because thee ball took on water.
		In 1936 after the Olympics the ball was made out of a cotton blatter, then changed to nylon, which was covered by rubber fabric for good gripping.
		I swam for SLUH to condition for water polo in the winter.
	www.geocities.com /poloplayaww/index.html (636 words)

	Ontario Water Polo Association
		Water polo is a combination of soccer, basketball, ice hockey and rugby, all rolled into one.
		But the best part about water polo is that it’s a team sport, so your friends can be a part of the fun too.
		Water polo is played in four eight-minute, action-packed periods.
	www.ontariowaterpolo.ca /KidsZone.aspx (1183 words)

	SI Flashback
		On Oct. 23, 1956, a courageous band of Hungarian freedom fighters revolted against the Soviet-dominated Communist regime in Budapest and attempted to supplant it with a democratic government.
		The defending Olympic champion Hungarian water polo team, sequestered in a mountain training camp at the time of the insurrection, could hear gunfire and see smoke rising from burning buildings in the beleaguered capital city below.
		Water polo can be a rough game, but no game in the history of the sport could match this one for unrestrained ferocity.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /events/1996/olympics/daily/july28/flashback.html (691 words)

	Water Polo legends
		Water Polo match between the teams of “Paris” and “Pupilles de Neptune de Lille” at the “Bains Deligny”, a floated swimming pool on the river Seine, opposite the Tuileries Gardens, in 1905.
		Beautiful detail of a Water Polo engraving, signed in 1896 by the English artist W. Small, within the French magazine “L’ illustré Soleil du Dimanche” of 5th September 1897.
		Water Polo book written in 1923 by the legendary Paul Beulque, who established the glorious team “Enfants de Neptune de Tourcoing” and introduced the traditional method of teaching swimming bearing his name.
	waterpoloideas.blogspot.com /?widgetType=BlogArchive&widgetId=BlogArchive1&action=toggle&dir=open&toggle=MONTHLY-1175410800000&toggleopen=MONTHLY-1207033200000 (1529 words)

	Sport: Water Polo - Australian Olympic Committee
		Water polo is the oldest Olympic team sport having been contested continuously at every modern Olympic Games since Paris 1900.
		In the early Olympics, many of the champion swimmers doubled up to represent their countries in water polo with Johnny Weissmuller (5 gold medals in swimming, 1924-28), who was later to gain fame as Tarzan in the movies, winning a bronze medal as part of the United States team in Paris 1924.
		As a result, by the time the Olympics arrived, feelings were running high between the competitors from the two nations.
	corporate.olympics.com.au /sports.cfm?SportID=1&DisciplineID=19 (537 words)

	Water Polo - History (photo attached)
		Modern water polo was invented in the late nineteenth century as a form of rugby in rivers and lakes in England and Scotland with a ball made of India rubber.
		Men's water polo was first played at the Olympic Games in 1900; women's water polo became an Olympic sport at the 2000 Games.
		The most famous water polo match in history is probably the 1956 Summer Olympics semifinal between Hungary and the Soviet Union.
	en.beijing2008.cn /29/75/article212057529.shtml (350 words)

	Hungarian Reflects on Bloody Melbourne Games
		Forty years ago, in Melbourne, Australia, Ujvary was one of Hungary's Olympic divers, watching with the rest of that country's delegation as it took a measure of spiritual revenge for unspeakable horrors perpetrated by Russians back home.
		Weeks after 200,000 troops invaded Budapest in the fall of 1956 to crush an anti-Soviet uprising, the two countries collided in a water polo match that would become one of those lightning-rod Olympic events electric with long-lasting political fallout.
		On the one hand, he said that water polo players have engaged in their fair share of non-political bloody scrapes.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/olympics/0721/oly-wtp-hungary-russia.html (930 words)

	Santa Barbara Water Polo Camp: Camp Staff
		As a three-time Olympian and former captain of the USA Water Polo Men's National Team, Wolf Wigo is well-versed in the Olympic motto of Citus, Altus, Fortus: Faster, Higher, Stronger.
		Rave was a member of the Gaucho water polo team from 1997 till the fall of 2000.
		Prior to attending UCSB, Rave played goalie for the United States Water Polo National Youth Team in 1996 and was the MVP for Eastern High School Championships while a member of the Mount Saint Joseph men's water polo team.
	www.eteamz.com /SantaBarbaraWaterPoloCamp/news/index.cfm?cat=435382 (1836 words)

	Olympics - EnchantedLearning.com
		The Greeks held the first Olympic games in the year 776 BC (over 2700 years ago), and had only one event, a sprint (a short run that was called the "stade").
		For each Olympics, a new flame is started in the ancient Olympic stadium in Olympia, Elis, Greece, using a parabolic mirror to focus the rays of the Sun.
		The events in the Summer Olympics include: archery, badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, canoeing, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, football (soccer), gymnastics, handball, hockey, judo, kayaking, marathon, pentathlon, ping pong, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, taekwando, tennis, track and field (many running, jumping, and throwing events), triathlon, volleyball, water polo, weightlifting, wrestling (freestyle and Greco-Roman).
	www.enchantedlearning.com /olympics (1311 words)

	NSW Water Polo Inc
		The publicity generated by the violence during the 1956 Melbourne Olympics in the game between Hungary and Russia enhanced the opinion of many—that water polo was rough, ugly and dangerous to play.
		Parents of young, future water polo stars are not going to be interested in their children playing a sport where deliberate attacks can take place with serious injury always a possibility.
		Water polo should be basketball and soccer in the water, not boxing and wrestling.
	www.nswwaterpolo.com.au /coaching.php?coachID=336 (1999 words)

	Inwit Publishing, Inc. and Inwit, LLC -- Writings, Links and Software Demonstrations - The Science of the Summer Games ...
		The breaststroke is the most rigidly defined of the Olympic styles; athletes must adhere to six rules, specifying everything from the permissible kick (the frog "backward and out") to the position of the shoulders ("in line with the water").
		Water is of course very close to 1000 grams per liter, and air at the same temperature (0 C) is 1.2929 grams per liter; the viscosity of water at 20 C is 1.0020 millipascal-seconds and air at the same temperature is 18.2 micropascal-seconds.
		At 68 F the viscosity of water is 1.0020 millipascal-seconds; at 78 F the viscosity is 0.8747 millipascal-seconds, a difference of at least 12%.
	www.algorithm.com /inwit/writings/scienceofthesummergames.html (5160 words)

	INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
		The 1936 Olympics, held in Berlin, are best remembered for Adolf Hitler’s failed attempt to use them to prove his theories of Aryan racial superiority.
		She remains the youngest female gold medalist in the history of the Summer Olympics.
		Hungarian water polo player Olivier Halassy won his third medal despite the fact that one of his legs had been amputated below the knee following a streetcar accident.
	www.olympic.org /uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1936 (366 words)

	Welcome to myfoodcount.com - Measure Your Health - Living Library - Water Polo
		Water polo is a team water sport, which can be best described as a combination of swimming, football (soccer), basketball, ice hockey, rugby and wrestling.
		A perfect water polo athlete can be best described as having the over-arm accuracy of a baseball pitcher, the vertical of a volleyball player, the toughness of a hockey player, the endurance of a cross-country skier and the strategy of a chess player.
		The content includes the history of water polo, field diagrams, player roles, basic water polo rules and strategies, referee signals, and a glossary of useful water polo terms—the essentials to understand and enjoy water polo.
	www.myfoodcount.com /healthylife/livinglibrary/waterpolo.html (477 words)

	Articles - 1956 Summer Olympics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The first was the British and French involvement in the Suez Crisis, which led to the absence of Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq.
		The Soviet handling of the Hungarian revolution led to the absence of Spain, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
		* Inspired by Australian teenager John Wing, an Olympic tradition began when athletes of different nations are allowed to parade together at the closing ceremony, instead of with their national teams, as a symbol of world unity...
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/1956_Summer_Olympics (403 words)

	Water Polo - News - Times Topics - The New York Times
		Perhaps the most famous game was the 1956 Melbourne Olympic final between the Soviet Union and Hungary, one month after Soviet troops had invaded Hungary to quell an uprising.
		The United States water polo team withstood a late rally by Italy and beat the defending Olympic and world champions, 11-10, tonight in the United States Open.
		Spain battled Italy for three overtimes in the water polo final today, a match of pulsating rhythms and foot-stomping fans overseen by a pair of Croatian-born coaches who almost came to blows after their players engaged in a shoving match.
	topics.nytimes.com /top/reference/timestopics/subjects/w/water_polo/index.html?offset=50&s=newest (1033 words)

	Water Polo Brutality
		Water polo players make it seem as though all the action is above the water.
		It seems as though water polo has been harsh through the years, which means that all of this brutality is not a new thing.
		The restrictions of water polo are very clear, but not everybody likes to play by the rules.
	www.bashof.org /documents/kelseyrodgers.html (751 words)

	.: The Politics of Sport by Leslie Gilbert Elman - Global Traveler Magazine :.
		It was the 1956 semi-final water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union — the “Blood in the Water” match.
		En route to Melbourne for the 1956 Summer Olympics, the Hungarian water polo team was unaware of the uprising at home.
		When Hungarian player Ervin Zador was punched in the eye, drawing lood (hence the “Blood in the Water” epithet), officials stopped the match and awarded victory to Hungary, which was ahead 4-0 at the time.
	www.globaltravelerusa.com /showarticle.php?id=2886&pg=1 (698 words)

	Monte Nitzkowski Inducted Into UCLA Athletics Hall Of Fame - Former Bruin water polo player and swimmer also coached in ...
		The 2006 inductees are Carol Bower, rowing; Herb Flam, tennis; Monte Nitzkowski, swimming and water polo; Jonathan Ogden, football and track and field; Annette Salmeen, swimming; Dennis Storer, soccer and rugby; John Vallely, basketball; and Elaine Youngs, volleyball.
		In water polo, Nitzkowski was named first-team all southern division in 1951 as a Bruin.
		She was a three-time World Champion Silver Medalist (1981-83) and took home the gold medal in the eights during the 1984 Summer Olympics.
	uclabruins.cstv.com /sports/m-wpolo/spec-rel/100406aaa.html (1862 words)

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