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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The swimmers move in graceful unison, performing somersaults in the water. They are the ladies of The Brooklyn Peaches Synchronized Swimming Troupe, who have created a new sense of community at the ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

I realize that I am funny to you. The fact that I spent more than 15 years donning sequined headpieces and swimsuits and forcing a smile while wearing noseclips and performing to the music of John ...

Rachel Presser is a professional synchronized swimmer and 2021 olympian who lives a demanding lifestyle performing on Royal Caribbean’s Wonder Of The Seas cruise ship. Go deep into her daily routine ...

Marathon swimming or open water? Artistic swimming or synchronized? There’s a bit of aquatic confusion at the Olympics, where two of the disciplines are referred to by conflicting names. Officially, ...

The Australian team practices before competing in the Open Team Free Final at the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup Super Final Budapest 2024 this July. Credit - David Balogh—Getty Images In ...