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Banana Heads from the Acrapolips
Lou Gioia, die-hard Brooklynite and water polo fan, takes the reader on the adventure of a lifetime to Athens during the 2004 Olympics. Affectionately calling themselves “banana heads,” Lou and his best friend, Tommy, could not be more hilarious…
Tags: Alcohol, Athens, Brooklyn, California, drinking, humour, non-fiction, Olympic Games XXVIII
"We Bluegills" (Robert Travieso 1998)
"From our side of the pool we Bluegills watch the boys from the Coast Guard saunter out of the visitor’s locker room to a complicated group clap that resounds in layered echoes all across the natatorium; over the sloshing pale green of the pool…
Tags: fiction, Rober Travieso
Buck Rogers' Water Polo Caper
Neptune v. Earth in the sold-out inter-planetary championship water polo match. Buck Rogers gets a ticket and free entry to the practice scrimmage thanks to his friend Crane, a star earth player. The earthlings are at a disadvantage because the…
Tags: Buck Rogers, Comic strip, Earth, fiction, mystery, Neptune
Water Polo - Worthing Swimming Club (1898)
Originally filmed using the short-lived 68mm process, this was one of a number of films made by William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson during a trip to Worthing (just along the South Coast from Brighton and Hove, already well established as centres of…
Todos mis hermanos (Manel Estiarte (2009))
Manuel Estiarte (ESP) was inducted into the Swimming Hall of Fame in 2007. His playing achievements are legendary: 1980 Olympic Games: 4th; 1984 Olympic Games: 4th; 1988 Olympic Games: 6th; 1992 Olympic Games: silver; 1996 Olympic Games: gold; 2000…
Mañana lo Dejo: Confidencias de un Campeon Olimpico que Vencio a las Drogas y al Alcohol (Pedro Garcia Aguado (2008))
The Spanish waterpolo player Pedro Garcia Aguado (Olympic Games, silver: 1992 and gold: 1996; World Championship silver: 1991, 1994; and gold: 1998, 2001) offers an excellent first person account of his life. During his career as an Olympic medallist…
Vampire High
Cody Elliot isn't doing very well at school so his parents give him a choice: Our Lady of Perpetual Homework or Vlad Dracul Magnet school. He opts for the latter where the students tend to be tall and pale and looked after by a yellow-eyed wolf named…
Tags: fiction, High School, Juvenile Literature, vampire
Aficionado
In this science fiction short story, after a rocket malfunction sends him crashing into the ocean, Hacker Torrey encounters talkative and water polo playing dolphins who might just promise mankind a lifeline.
Tags: David Brin, dolphin, fiction, science fiction, short story
Mud Crab Boogie
Extreme Water Polo is the water polo of the 90s. And when Les Norton catches the semi-final on TV he is amazed to see that the man behind Extreme Polo is his old mate, Neville ͩzegynixon. So when Neville calls out of the blue and asks Les to drive…
Tags: Australia, fiction, Les Norton
Olympic Games, Beijing 2008. Commemorative Coin, Hungary.
Hungary; Olympics; Water Polo; 5,000 Forint; 2008; Proof Silver Crown; COA.Obverse: MAGYAR KOZTARSASAG above, 5000 FORINT below coat of arms of the Republic of Hungary, superimposed over a wavy line symbolising water.Reverse: XXIX NYARI OLYMPIAIA…
Tags: 2008, Beijing, coin, Gábor Kereszthury, Hungary, Olympic Games XXIX