RIO DE JANEIRO, August 19 /TASS/. Russian women have won the Olympic synchronized swimming gold in team competitions in Rio. Vlada Chigiryova, Natalya Ishchenko, Svetlana Kolesnichenko, Alexandra ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s time to start thinking about making your New Year’s resolutions. The No. 1 resolution everyone makes, and tries to follow, is to become healthier with diet or with exercise. Some may consider ...

It turns out that synchronized swimming -- often lumped with cheerleading, ballroom dancing and other activities as hobbies rather than sports -- is a lot harder than it looks. It takes flexibility, ...

Aug 19 (Reuters) - Olympic synchronized swimming women's duet free routine result in Beijing on Tuesday. 1. Anastasia Davydova/Anastasia Ermakova (Russia) 49.500 points 2. Andrea Fuentes/Gemma Mengual ...

Andrea Nott and Christina Jones (below) Each is an unlikely world-class synchronized swimmer in her own way. Nott, 26, an alternate on the 2004 Olympic team, combats exercise-induced asthma. Jones, 20 ...

Team Greece’s synchronized swimming team is receiving a ton of attention during the 2024 Paris Olympics, but it has nothing to do with the current squad. The Greece team from more than years ago is ...