In an event for women only, swimmers have to be artistic and graceful making complicated athletic moves look easy. Only figure skating requires quite this combination of athleticism and ...

Olympics viewers may have noticed that synchronized swimming goes by another name these days: artistic swimming. The moniker made its Olympic debut at the 2020 Tokyo Games in 2021, nearly 40 years ...

“When you swim a whole routine, there are points when you really need air," American swimmer Mariya Koroleva recently told Team USA. "Your body almost starts doing these little convulsions but ...

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 ...

Just try it and you’ll know it’s the most difficult sport in the world.” This is not the synchronized swimming that your parents or grandparents watched — the water ballet that made few ...

Above or below water, there is an elite aquatics show going on, and the Central YMCA’s Cygnets Synchronized Swimming Team is the star, going well beyond an orchestrated dip in the pool.

What to know about artistic swimming at the 2024 Paris Olympics Artistic swimming -- formerly known as synchronized swimming -- arrived at the Tokyo Olympics with an new name. Now, the sport heads to ...