Water Polo Update

If you're looking for something to watch on the Olympics today, the USA's women's team plays for gold this afternoon at 3 pm.  I somehow managed to miss their semi-final game against Australian on Tuesday, but they won it by a goal in what was supposed to be a pretty exciting game.  This game promises to be a good one, too.  The Americans are playing Spain, and from what I've seen of that Spanish team, it's a really good team despite the fact that this is the first time that the Spanish have fielded a women's water polo team.

If the USA wins today, it'll be America's first ever gold medal in women's water polo.  The match is gonna be carried live on NBC.  Or you can watch it online.

If you're wondering, the men got clobbered yesterday in their quarter-final round match against Croatia.  I don't know what to say about that.  I mean, the USA men's team looked really, really good in the early parts of the tournament, but then they lost by five goals to Serbia, and after that, they fell apart.  Hungary beat them something like 8-2, and Croatia yesterday beat them by a similar score.  Depressing.

The US hasn't won a gold in water polo since 1904.  But last Olympics they surprised and won silver, and this year the squad was a favorite to medal once again.  They went through three games undefeated and looking strong before suddenly falling apart.  It's strange to see a whole team slide like that, but there you have it.