Hungary won the men's gold medal and Italy won the women's gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Water Polo and are both likely contenders for the 2008 Olympics.
Update; Hungary did win the Olympic gold medal in mens water polo at Beijing in 2008 to make a hattrick of consecutive golds. The womens competition was won by the Netherlands
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Hungary is generally the best country for Water Polo. Water Polo there is like the NBA in the States.
In the US, California is the hot spot for H2O Polo (also Oregon, Hawaii and Florida). As far as US players go, the "rock star" of water polo is Stanford Alum and three time Olympian Tony Azevedo.
The current mens world champions are Serbia, who beat Spain 14-13 in the recent final held in Italy in July 2009. The final was decided on penalties, with the score being 6-6 after normal time and 7-7 after extra time.
In the Olympics the most successful mens water polo team are Hungary who have won 9 of the 25 gold medals and have won the last 3 consecutive gold medals.
The current womens world champions are USA who beat Canada 7-6 in the final, while the current Olympic champions are the Netherlands