Monday, August 25, 2008

Handball and Water Polo: America's Favorite Pastimes

I recently snagged an entry pass to an Olympic venue that contains the buildings for Handball, Water Polo, Fencing and Modern Pentatholon.

So, after work the other day, I headed over to a handball match. After an hour or so, it was on to water polo where, as luck would have it, the USA women's team was playing the Netherlands. This was especially lucky because I've decided that Dutch is my second favorite nationality, right after Italian.

In terms of coolness, here is where I feel the countries' fans stand:

1. Dutch--who basically wear a lot of orange and hand out little wooden shoe pins which are also orange
2. Swedish--who mostly choose not just to wear their nation's colors, but usually to just wear their flag
3. Hungarians--who are usually just very intoxicated at all the events
4. Chinese--who flock in the thousands to any and every event even though you usually get the impression they don't understand the first thing about the sport. like me.
5. United States of Americans and Australians (TIE)-who are generally awesome, and enjoy painting their faces, but need to up the anty like those European hooligans.

Anyhow, I didn't intend to write about that. Here are some pictures of what I'm sure are your two favorite sports.




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