MINNEAPOLIS -- Eight swimmers slipped below the surface of the water in unison. From the pool deck, the group looked like shadowy figures underwater. Down there in the deep end, the swimmers worked to ...

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 ...

Kristina Makushenko, a retired four-time world champion in synchronized swimming, performed Rachael Gunn’s viral breakdance routine from the 2024 Paris Olympics — while under water and wearing high ...

Olga Sedakova started synchronized swimming at just nine years old. Since the sport was still new to the Soviet Union, Olga and her coach developed training methods that combined swimming techniques ...

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, ...

FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) — Snicker if you wish. Guffaw for good measure. Bill May and other male synchronized swimmers — now called artistic swimmers — have heard the putdowns before. But they’re getting ...

You may have noticed an event at the 2024 Paris Olympics that looks just like synchronized swimming, with gaggles of swimmers in matching suits performing the same move in unison -- but its not. Not ...

“You want that kind of like ability to make people’s heads turn and to make people want to see what’s going on when your music is playing,” head coach Megan Azebu said. The first step for a ...

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 ...

If you’ve been watching the Olympics, you may have noticed that synchronized swimming has a new name. In July 2017, the International Swimming Federation, or FINA, announced that the sport would be ...

A convincing win in France that’ll hopefully ease transfer worries and remind us to enjoy how great this side is! Lorenzo Pellegrini is putting his tendon problem behind him. After the operation that ...