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 ...

In late 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that at this summer’s Paris Olympic Games, men would be allowed to compete in artistic swimming (previously known as synchronized ...

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 ...

For 40 years, artistic swimming has been part of the Summer Olympics. At the 2024 Paris Olympics, it had the opportunity to look different than it ever had before at the world’s most prestigious ...

Set to music from Kanye West, Fall Out Boy and even a Charlie’s Angels medley, a dozen swimmers weave throughout a Cooke Hall pool while incorporating spins, intricate leg kicks and lifts that see ...

Every four years at the Olympics, the world gets invested in a number of sports that rarely are part of the public consciousness in non-Olympic years. Whether that’s the marquee Olympic events like ...

It used to be that artistic swimming -- AKA synchronized swimming -- was an Olympic sport only for women. But that's no longer the case for the 2024 Paris Olympics. That's the good news! In 2022, the ...

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

Just weeks after the Davis AquaStarz celebrated its silver anniversary, the U.S. Olympic Artistic Swim Team took the silver medal — a crowning moment that has since spawned interest nationwide in this ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, August 19 /TASS/. Russian women have won the Olympic synchronized swimming gold in team competitions in Rio. Vlada Chigiryova, Natalya Ishchenko, Svetlana Kolesnichenko, Alexandra ...

Seattle Synchronized Swimming Club is holding a free try-it session at Redmond Pool, located at 17535 NE 104 St., on Saturday from 3 to 4 p.m. for kids 7 to 12 years old. August 15, 2011 1:35 pm ...

“The Y was my home away from home,” confessed Kathy Cameron, a longtime Sudbury teacher who was introduced to synchro at the ...