To many, synchronized swimming (or “artistic swimming,” as the competitive sport is now called, after a rebrand in 2017) may be synonymous with over-the-top 1950s Esther Williams aqua ...

Synchronized swimming first started to emerge in the ‘30s and ‘40s in aquacades — large performances in water that typically incorporated dance and music — and quickly gained popularity in Hollywood, ...

Move over, Raygun. Kristina Makushenko, a retired four-time world champion in synchronized swimming, performed Rachael Gunn’s viral breakdance routine from the 2024 Paris Olympics — while ...

What to Know. Pop-up Synchronized Swim Classes at the West Hollywood Aquatic Center; Aqualillies, the celebrated synchronized swim troupe, will lead a free class July 20, 2024 from 9 to 10:15 a.m ...

The Olympic Aquatics Centre is hosting the artistic swimming competition of these Paris Games, which runs from Monday, August 5 to Saturday, August 10. The first medals will be awarded on ...

The sport is already underway at the Paris Games this week, with two medals at stake. Don't let the grace and poise fool you: Artistic swimming is quite physically demanding. How do they do it?

The sport, formerly known as synchronized swimming, has a new name as well as more muscular athletes and more risky tricks. At a minimum, it demands endurance, power, leonine grace, hair gelatin ...

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 ...

Artistic swimming, blending acrobatics with music, debuted at the 1984 Olympics. ... Men have competed for decades in the lower levels of the sport formerly known as synchronized swimming.

Two members of the U.S. artistic swim team that won a silver medal at the Paris Olympics Wednesday got their start in what was formerly known as synchronized swimming with Seattle Synchro.

By the mid-1950s, there were—according to Sports Illustrated—roughly 25,000 practitioners of synchronized swimming in the U.S., and the sport had been accepted by FINA, the international ...

Meet Kristina Makushenko, the four-time World Champion in synchronized swimming, who performed Raygun’s breakdance routine from the 2024 Paris Olympics while underwater and wearing high heels… ...