Water polo originated as a form of rugby football played in rivers and lakes in England and Scotland, probably from the 1850s onwards. In 1900, the sport of water polo was added at the Paris Olympics – the first team sport to be added.
The five toughest sports are considered to be the decathlon, marathon, boxing, water polo, and rowing.
Waterpolopedia covers a wide variety of aspect of the sport, focusing on high school and collegiate water polo as well as coverage of the men's and women's teams from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The Top 20 ranked men's and women's teams in America include many outstanding academic universities from Stanford and Harvard to UCLA and Michigan. Players are both physically talented and intellectually gifted.
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