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 ...

At its core, synchronized swimming is an aquatic sport that blends the art of dance with the power and endurance of swimming. This fascinating mix offers a range of benefits for both your mental ...

Along with men's inclusivity in artistic swimming, the Games may also get four new sports – breaking, sport climbing, skateboarding and surfing. 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris More ...

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… ...

O lympics viewers may have noticed that synchronized swimming goes by another name these days: artistic swimming.The moniker made its Olympic debut at the 2020 Tokyo Games in 2021, nearly 40 years ...

The name “synchronized swimming” dates back to the 1934 Chicago World’s Fair, where an emerging style of swimming made its mass debut. In the 1920s and ’30s, swim clubs across the United ...

Officials hope rebranding synchronized swimming to artistic swimming will draw parallels to artistic gymnastics. Learn more about the sport’s history and name change.

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 ...

May was among the first men to compete when synchronized swimming was included for the first time in 2015. AP “There has always been that misconception that it’s a female-only sport, or that ...

The new book 'Swimming Pretty' traces an art form and a sport to its inception, back when women were discouraged from swimming for modesty's sake. Synchronized swimming is even more impressive ...

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 ...