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 ...

Every four years at the Olympics, the world gets invested in a number of sports that rarely are part of the public consciousness in non-Olympic years. Whether that’s the marquee Olympic events like ...

The USA's synchronized swimming team is pulling out all the stops as it looks to medal in artistic swimming at the 2024 Olympics. That includes breaking out an underwater rendition of a dance move ...

Kristina Makushenko, a retired four-time world champion in synchronized swimming, performed Rachael Gunn’s viral breakdance routine from the 2024 Paris Olympics — while under water and wearing high ...

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 ...

Unlikely Twin Cities synchronized swim team goes for gold in Paris With limited training but plenty of drive, the Subversive Sirens aim to make synchronized swimming more inclusive — and perform a ...

Marathon swimming or open water? Artistic swimming or synchronized? There’s a bit of aquatic confusion at the Olympics, where two of the disciplines are referred to by conflicting names. Officially, ...

When the United States won silver in team artistic swimming Aug. 7 in Paris for just its third Olympic medal, it was cause for celebration in the synchronized swimming community. It was also an ...