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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the Games head to our latest updates. SAINT-DENIS, France — Let’s get one thing straight: There’s so much more to artistic ...

In “Swimming Pretty,” Vicki Valosik connects the evolution of an unlikely sport with the century-long struggle of women to be taken seriously in the water. By Jennifer Schuessler Jennifer Schuessler ...

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 ...

Where did ‘synchronized swimming’ go? Over 40 years after its Olympic debut, the sport underwent a rebranding as 'artistic swimming'. In July 2017, the International Swimming Federation, or FINA, ...

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 ...

Goodbye, green. Hello again, blue. Hope you can stick around awhile. Synchronized swimmers were greeted by clear blue water in the competition pool Sunday after officials worked through the night to ...

In certain circles, Dorothy J. Sowers was as much of a household name as baseball pitching great Sal Maglie, Buffalo Braves basketball star Bob McAdoo and Buffalo Sabres broadcaster Ted Darling, all ...