What does it take to be a U.S. Olympic artistic swimmer? At a minimum, it demands endurance, power, leonine grace, hair gelatin, dance lessons, mastery of the eggbeater, flamingo, scull and rocket ...

Artistic swimming is one of many sporting events at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The combination of water acrobatics and music showcases technical movements and peak athleticism. Team USA is set to ...

In a story in this week’s magazine, available to TIME subscribers, we explore the financial challenges facing athletes in low-revenue Olympic sports like synchronized swimming. The U.S. is one of the ...

The Australian team practices before competing in the Open Team Free Final at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup Super Final Budapest 2024 this July. In late 2022, the International ...

While Michigan’s current athletic success is highly transparent a number of programs disappeared over time, particularly in ...

If you, a die hard Olympics nerd [enthusiastically thrusts hand into air], have been feverishly sifting through your TV guide in search of synchronized swimming these past few weeks with no success, ...

The Lake County YMCA does a lot more than give the community a clean and safe place to simply swim a few laps. Above or below water, there is an elite aquatics show going on, and the Central YMCA’s ...

Athletes from Russia and Belarus, if approved to compete as neutral athletes, can now form swimming relays, synchronized diving pairs and artistic swimming duets and teams at World Aquatics events.

LANSDALE, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- More than 30 years ago, Heather Doherty saw a poster advertising a synchronized swimming group called, 'The Mermaids,' at her local YMCA. Doherty is now the head of ...