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write short note on water polo

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Water polo, sport played in a swimming pool by teams of seven with a buoyant ball resembling football (soccer ball). The game was originally called “football-in-the-water,” and indeed it is more like association football and basketball than polo, the name of the sport coming from an earlier form of the game in which players rode barrels painted like horses and struck the ball with sticks. The aim of the game is to score a goal by throwing or dribbling the ball between the goalposts and under the crossbar of the defenders’ goal. The sport originated in Great Britain in the 1870s.

A water-polo team consists of seven active players and up to six substitutes. Each team wears either blue or white caps (red for the goalkeepers, with a blue or white number one; other players are numbered from 2 through 13). No grease or oil is allowed on the body. The two referees have final authority in each game; other officials include one or two timekeepers; one or two secretaries, who keep records of the many kinds of fouls, such as holding or hitting an opponent; and two goal judges. Water polo is regulated byInternational Amateur Swimming Federation; founded 1908 through its International Water Polo Committee, which issues Rules of Water Polo.

Water polo is a rough and demanding sport. The minimum depth of the pooll is 2 metres (6.5 feet). The pool is 30 metres (98 feet) long between goals, and 20 metres (65 feet) wide. The width between goalposts is 3 metres (9.8 feet), the crossbar being at least 0.9 metre (3 feet) above the surface of the water. Nets are attached to the goalposts and crossbars. Pools for women’s games are smaller (25 metres by 17 metres [82 feet by 56 feet]).

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