Yes, artistic swimming is the same sport that used to be called synchronized swimming, although even the Olympians often forget and casually refer to their sport as “synchro.” (I was a ...

Bill May, left, leads the United States team out to compete in the team acrobatic of artistic swimming at the World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Saturday, July 15, 2023. Largely ...

He was among the first men to compete when synchro was included in the worlds for the first time in 2015. And he worked for 17 years at Cirque du Soleil doing water-themed shows.

It's the first time the United States has competed in Artistic swimming since the Beijing games in 2008.

The nation’s longest running synchronized swim club is at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines.

FUKUOKA, Japan — 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 the ...

Synchronized swimming is leagues beyond the sort of bathing beauty spectacle that many associate with Esther Williams. A day spent with the U.S. team in Walnut Creek, Calif., shows why the ...

For the first time in Olympic history men will be able to compete in artistic swimming, which was first introduced in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

He was among the first men to compete when synchro was included in the worlds for the first time in 2015. And he worked for 17 years at Cirque du Soleil doing water-themed shows.

Men have competed at the lower levels in a sport formerly known as synchronized swimming. But next year for the first time they will have the Olympic stage.

This is not the synchronized swimming that your parents or grandparents watched.