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 ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — The nation’s longest-running synchronized swim club is preparing to make a historic splash as it ...

Prior to my synchronized-­swimming lesson, I’d imagined something serene: delicate flapping of arms, elegant surface glides, a single leg raised in the air. Then I hopped into the pool at the Silver ...

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 ...

The Lake County YMCA does a lot more than give the community a clean and safe place to simply swim a few laps. Above or below water, there is an elite aquatics show going on, and the Central YMCA’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Temperatures are on the rise again around Southern California, which makes the possibility of a pool, and time spent in a beautiful blue expanse, especially appealing. Stream Los Angeles News for free ...

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 ...