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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Eight swimmers slipped below the surface of the water in unison. From the pool deck, the group looked like shadowy figures underwater. Down there in the deep end, the swimmers worked to ...

FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) — Snicker if you wish. Guffaw for good measure. Bill May and other male synchronized swimmers — now called artistic swimmers — have heard the putdowns before. But they’re getting ...

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, ...

On the same day that synchronized swimming pioneer Joy Cushman died at 98, another pioneer in the sport also died. Dawn Bean, who along with Cushman were instrumental in the development of ...

Joy Cushman, International Swimming Hall of Fame honoree, died on Wednesday. She was 98. She was a member of United States Synchronized Swimming, and represented the group on the United States Olympic ...

If you’ve been watching the Olympics, you may have noticed that synchronized swimming has a new name. In July 2017, the International Swimming Federation, or FINA, announced that the sport would be ...

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 ...

This article is part of a running series The Daily’s Sports staff will be publishing on seniors. When she was in first grade, now fifth-year Jacklyn Luu and her brothers were swimming in the local ...

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 ...

A convincing win in France that’ll hopefully ease transfer worries and remind us to enjoy how great this side is! Lorenzo Pellegrini is putting his tendon problem behind him. After the operation that ...