Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Water Polo


Water polo was a sport created in the mid 1800's in Britain. The game was mostly played for fun at festivals around Britain. In the late 1880's Britain created a water polo league and people around Europe starting to play the sport. Water Polo was one of the first Olympic team sports games allowed in the Olympics and that happen in 1900's. Water polo is now a beloved game for anyone that loves pool.

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Water_Polo

1 comment:

  1. water polo is a fun sport to play but you need good conditioning to play. the sport looks like it hasn’t change to much from then. looks like their playing out side never seen that before. never would of guessed it was the first Olympic spot. today this isn’t a bigger sport in the U.S.

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