When I was a small child, my mother often brought me along when she taught physical education at a small women’s college, run by nuns who were happy to have a young married woman to handle fencing ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Artistic swimming returns to Paris with a revamped scoring system and ...

Prior to my synchronized-­swimming lesson, I’d imagined something serene: delicate flapping of arms, elegant surface glides, a single leg raised in the air. Then I hopped into the pool at the Silver ...

Most people remember the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta for a pipe bombing and a dramatic one-legged vault landing by Kerri Strug. Not Michele Bennett. Though it received far less attention than the ...

Two members of the U.S. artistic swim team that won a silver medal at the Paris Olympics Wednesday got their start in what was formerly known as synchronized swimming with Seattle Synchro. 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 ...

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — There is just something special about the ladies in the pool for Cumberland Valley's synchronized swimming team. Every time the girls hit the water, it's all about putting on a ...

UA President Robert Shelton admitted he didn’t know much about synchronized swimming, but he was given a complete education Saturday as he watched the final rounds of the U.S. Synchronized Swimming ...

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 sport, formerly known as synchronized swimming, has a new name as well as more muscular athletes and more risky tricks. At a minimum, it demands endurance, power, leonine grace, hair gelatin, ...