Hi Jols

There are 10 OFFICIAL men's team representing their countries and 8 OFFICIAL women's team representing their countries .Portugal for men and Czech republic for women being the newest counrries .Laurent Dubost of France is the Chief referee and Ales Versic of Slovenia is the Tournament Director.The web site has gone on line it is UNDERWATER HOCKEY 2008 ISTANBUL - UWH. It should be complete by end of the week as translating from Turkish is not easy .The offcial puck is the Italian puck which is close to the Oz puck with some minor modifcations and was used at CMAS World games in Bari.