• AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    26·
    6 months ago

    Please just watch a waterpolo game. Its such a freaking great sport and its so underrated. Moved from hungary to sweden and literally nobody plays here… Id be happier if it was the hungarian womens team that got three golds in a row but even if its the US its a huge achievement. Im actually happy that the french put together a great team because the youth in france can see this amazing sport. Tho that loss in Doha hurt…

    • cjoll4@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      All right, your enthusiasm has convinced me. I don’t know anything about water polo, but I’ll look up a game on YouTube. Time to broaden my horizons!

      • cjoll4@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        Ah, so it’s basically soccer, using hands instead of feet, while swimming. Looks like it would be a fun casual sport to play with friends and family (but in a much smaller pool lol).

        • ultrafastsloth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          As someone who used to play WP, stopped in high school and after 6 years met with some old teammates to play one „casual“ game…twas very exhausting and not much fun

        • ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish
          3·
          6 months ago

          As long as you can stand on the bottom instead of treading, it can be casual & fun. Otherwise you need to be in incredible shape or have gills to have a chance.

          • OminousOrange@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            I remember there being tube polo as an intramural sport at my university. I never played but it’s another option to avoid mostly just drowning the whole time.

    • gravitas_deficiencyEnglish
      51·
      6 months ago

      As someone who played a bit in high school: it’s basically competitive drowning. As in, you’re treading water with only your legs because ball/passing/blocking, and you get in a scrum, and you basically try to drown the other guy while he tries to drown you. It’s pretty crazy, and if you understand what’s going on, it’s kinda wild to watch, especially at the professional/olympic level. It can get pretty spicy.

      And then there was the time the match wasn’t really about the match.

      • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        Yeah that match is kinda a national pride in hungary. We beat the whole ass USSR without help. And they played dirty as hell.

  • restingboredfaceEnglish
    19·
    6 months ago

    I hope this spreads to all Olympic sports so our teams each get a hype man (or lady), preferably an old school rap artist.

  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.eeEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    That… prompted Steffens, 30, the last remaining member of the 2012 team

    Are you guys shooting your olympic teams too?!?!?

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    6 months ago

    I too volunteer as tribute hypeman for the three-time defending Olympic champion U.S. women’s water polo team

  • Fontasia@feddit.nlEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    Just look at how tame his clocks have become, hell be just on a pocket watch soon

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    6 months ago

    Flav is a fun guy, I’ll never forget seeing Public Enemy backed by the Roots doing the entirety of It Takes a Nation of Millions live.

    But he also got into a fight with Chuck D over Chuck’s endorsement of Bernie, which I never understood.