pair in blue....
 

http://37.media.tumblr.com/6ccbd5e17...g4co1_1280.jpg
Nice coloring - no clues except that swim cap may be from Croatia
(and could there possibly be a Ducko suit ?)

Kaz
 

Not often seen - from Kazakhstan and in a Zumo suit ?
http://31.media.tumblr.com/255848eb9...i5no1_1280.jpg

Sconvoltri and shark
 

Rather dramatic printing on the suits of these Italian water polo guys but hard to trace the Sconvoltri Club*.
http://24.media.tumblr.com/8150529eb...i5no1_1280.jpg
*might have a connection to seawater polo competition and Chiavari Nights - post#37

How can Kazakhstan have a national water polo team while Great Britain is unable to support one for international competition?

my guess.....
 

- national pride and the deep pockets of one of those oil billionaires.

It's a good point but I don't think Sport England are impressed - I believe a team GB for water polo was entered for the 2012 Olympics for appearances sake but that was the first time after a long absence from so many past Games - and 2016? (don't hold your breath)

Shortage of pools, especially in a climate not particularly suited to outdoor unheated pools, I would guess.

shortsighted ...
 

So many extra indoor pools exist in cities now that facilities could be made available (even when hard to emulate the balmy Ligurian coastline and the Adriatic).
Official attitude is well summed up by the prompt removal of the purpose-built water polo venue for the 2012 Olympic events at the Queen Elizabeth Park.

(there's a well photo-shopped pic of the Thames if I can retrace it - a water polo match is under way near Tower Bridge and looks quite believable!)

found it....
 

Not the best facility one has to say: http://www.imagesource.com/Doc/IS0/M.../IS098T9GV.jpg

club ?Attica?
 

http://31.media.tumblr.com/698151c2c...g4co1_1280.jpg

Interesting pic. of two water polo players in club colors red and black.
Unusual location - water is 16ft 6ins deep which suggests a dive pool and a big scoreboard says SHOT (though I thought scores in water polo are goals)

Wow...
 

http://31.media.tumblr.com/69b75bca6...6e0o1_1280.jpg
Couldn't resist posting my favorite water polo suit as designed for team Oz - and the Turbo*here sure seems to have been sized down! (*or is it?)

tucked
 

I swim in the very same suit-you feel encased in it-covers butt crack barely but great feeling for laps. This guy has rolled his up and down-must be the meet is over because if he tries to play like that there is plenty of rolled fabric to grab onto. JVT

info.
 

Great to know it is associated with this forum through at least one member ! I was sure I hadn't seen it worn quite like that amongst the other players on the team - and more rolled up than down I would guess (maybe he is a surfboat oarsman too ?) as the waist cord remains visible and the wp ball in the print also.

manipulated ?
 

Compare on post#50: http://37.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md...7ne8o1_500.jpg

OK anywhere
 

That is the very same suit that I swim in about every week. Feels great and "solid" like armor for that section of your body. Butt crack will not show after you get wet. This suit is a great confidence builder for those of you who are bashfull wearing this style. Nobody will notice you at the pool. You can lounge around the pool and interact with other swimmers-they don't give a damned and if they do so what. Why so much talk about how brief you can "get away with"? Good taste should dictate here and there is such a thing of too much brevity No excuse to wear a suit showing butt crack except when you bend over etc. and if that's the case just pull it up. Get your rocks off in private or with your special person but don't expect Joe Blow to think a cock sock is in good taste. JVT

Very, very well said dorcas3!

D67

Tesco
 

http://31.media.tumblr.com/c22365082...623o1_1280.png
This was a surprise and needs some explanation.
Tesco is a big UK supermarket chain (somewhat like Walmart) and I learn from them that Tesco Hungary sponsors the Tesco Beach Water Polo Championships
(where is the beach I do not know as I thought Hungary has no coastline)

Lake Balaton
 

http://www.juniorclub.hu/camp/20

The largest inland lake in Europe.

should have known....
 

Thanks - seem to have found it here:
http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/73...91623e3121.jpg
(interesting history - once exclusive resort in soviet era for communist leaders and their guests)

Speaking of Russia, I was searching for weather related videos and I ran across this one of a hail storm on a beach in Novosibirsk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idjyusDUGSc

Take a look at the 1970s era trunks and a few speedo style suits. The Russians are definitely ahead of the trend back to old fashioned swimwear.

Russia
 

Very brave for the middle of Siberia I thought and then I learned that although they can expect -50c in winter it can be +35c in a Novosibirsk summer (a note for Louis there).
Btw no boardies to be seen on Sochi-Adler beach (Black Sea I think):
https://n0tice-static.s3.amazonaws.c...pectdouble.jpg

the w.p.team....
 

Black-suited butts lined up: http://37.media.tumblr.com/677c5d1f0...ely1o1_500.jpg

What a beautiful line-up...

You're right about that Swimmboy. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I wouldn't mind "beholding" one of them.

I agree Swim boy and Dooley67 its a beautiful lineup of Speedo clad guys. I wouldn't mind "beholding" them either.

numbers....
 

:confused: This is a good opportunity to raise my frequent confusion on w.p. teams' make-up - does anyone know the rules?
Sixteen players are in the pic and indeed no.16 is at the end of the line.
I thought however that a team is composed of seven and there we have four no.1 but no no.4.