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 ...

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 ...

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If Bill May makes the U.S. Olympic team, he will become the first man ever to compete in artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronized swimming, at the Games. Bill May and U.S. Olympic artistic ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Artistic swimming returns to Paris with a revamped scoring system and defending gold medalists. Artistic swimming, known ...

China cruised to gold in artistic swimming (women's duet) on Saturday as Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi earned a total score of 566.4783. The twin sisters' score of 276.7867 in the technical routine was ...

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A U.S. artistic swimming team will compete at the Olympics this summer for the first time since 2008. The team could include a man for the first time ever. The Americans earned one of the last five ...

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, ...