What does it take to be a U.S. Olympic artistic swimmer? At a minimum, it demands endurance, power, leonine grace, hair gelatin, dance lessons, mastery of the eggbeater, flamingo, scull and rocket ...

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 ...

Eloise Amberger and Sarah Bombell of Australia compete in the Women's Duets Synchronised Swimming Free Routine Preliminary on Day 10 of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Aquatics Centre on August 6 ...

Prior to my synchronized-­swimming lesson, I’d imagined something serene: delicate flapping of arms, elegant surface glides, a single leg raised in the air. Then I hopped into the pool at the Silver ...

One of the most wow-worthy moments of the Olympic Games in Paris came during one of Team USA Artistic Swimming's performance. During the team technical routine round, Team USA artistic swimming ...

KAZAN, Russia (Reuters) - Judges were forced to wear rain jackets and hold umbrellas and an underwater speaker broke during Russia’s gold-medal winning routine as bad weather and technical problems ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Synchronised swimming is perhaps the most deceptive of all Olympic sports. Behind the lipstick, hair gel, fixed smiles and sequined swimsuits lurks a lung-bursting test of ...

In the early 20th century, most Western women still bound their cores in corsets. Not so with Annette Kellerman, the record-setting Australian swimmer who told a crowd of New York City socialites in ...

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 ...

Could you hold your breath underwater while doing a gymnastics routine? These athletes can. For more great language tips and programmes visit bbclearningenglish.com Show more How long can you hold ...

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, ...