 It's for this reason that, unlike other sports, the best players can't play the World Polo Championship.The last Championship has been hosted in Sydney in 2017 at the Sydney Polo Club.In the early 1980s, motivated by a desire to broaden the scope of international polo, as well as to restore the sport’s Olympic status, Marcos Uranga, then President of the Argentine Polo Association, proposed that an international organization be formed among the polo playing countries of the world.