Artistic swimming first appeared at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. At the 2024 Summer Games in Paris, male athletes will be allowed to compete in the sport for the first time in Olympic ...

Artistic swimming—formerly known as synchronized swimming—is a wild and wonderful Olympic sport. It’s absolutely grueling for the athletes; they are expected to twist, flip, and kick in ...

But as rules restricted men from the sport, female teams rose in popularity. The first official artistic swimming competitions debuted at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games — without men.

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 ...