Water polo could be nearing historic changes. A more up-tempo game appears imminent as FINA informed its federations on Tuesday about new rules that were approved, via postal mail vote, by the FINA Bureau following a proposal by the Technical Water Polo Committee. Those rules will be broadly applied in 2015, and in a targeted fashion
FINA Publishes New Rules for International Play
Fina Executive Director Cornel Marculescu distributed via email today an update to the organizing body’s water polo rules for 2013-2017. The changes, many of which are rules interpretations more than actual new regulations, were decided at the FINA Congress held in Barcelona in July. The new rules went in to effect









