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A fact from Blood in the Water match appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 September 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Blood In The Water match was one of the most famous matches in water polo history, and was won by Hungary after the match was stopped in the final minutes following crowd trouble?

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Probably an exaggeration

The picture of Zádor looks like he was bleeding quite a lot so it seems likely that some of the water turned red around him, visibly for the other players. Whether this was even visible from a distance (i.e., for the spectators) is something we don't know – "probably not" is a safe bet. Certainly nobody is saying the entire pool turned red. K issL 09:16, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"The Match" section

Re: "Following the Olympics, half of the 100-member Hungarian Olympic delegation defected."

As someone who is reasonably intelligent, but does not know about Hungarian politics, I'm not sure what exactly this is saying.

Half of the Olympic delegation defected to.... what? Russia? The U.S.? Random countries?

Regardless of to whom they defected, this seems completely contrary to the fact stated just before it, that they had won a gold medal.

Therefore, I'm confused about the significance of this (maybe it should just be in a new paragraph?).

Also, is this fact (the original quote) common knowledge enough that it doesn't need to be cited?

Jabberwockgee (talk) 20:16, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Considering no one has responded in several months I'll go ahead and remove that portion as it cites no sources. Xenocide^Talk^|^{Contributions} 00:36, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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