It's a swimming competition not about speed but about artistry, control, balance and the ability to hold your breath underwater for a long time. Artistic swimming is the figure skating of the Summer ...

That confusing first sentence is a reference to the figures side of a synchronized swim meet. Figures are synchronized swimming’s compulsory exercises, or progressions between positions. They’re ...

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 ...

When the sport of artistic swimming, formerly synchronized swimming, announced it would allow men to compete in the Paris Games, Bill May saw his chance. But the U.S. team chose only women. By Sarah ...

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 ...

Artistic swimming returns to Paris with a revamped scoring system and defending gold medalists. Artistic swimming, known for its fusion of water acrobatics and music, first made waves decades ago.

If Bill May makes the U.S. Olympic team, he will become the first man ever to compete in artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronized swimming, at the Games. Bill May and U.S. Olympic artistic ...

Margaret Zhu, a sixth-grader at Tyee Middle School, was one of 10 synchronized swimmers to compete for the Under-12 United States National Team at the Union Americana de Natación Pan American Artistic ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook When it comes to art, bits and pieces of it can be found wherever we look, even in the most ...