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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The nation’s longest running synchronized swim club is at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines. The nation’s longest running synchronized swim club is at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines. Dive under ...
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, ...
The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) announced that Russian synchronized swimmer Anastasia Davydova will join 17 others as honorees who will enter the International Swimming Hall of Fame as ...
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 ...
Artistic swimming returns to Paris with a revamped scoring system and defending gold medalists. Artistic swimming, known for its fusion of water acrobatics and music, first made waves decades ago.
When the sport of artistic swimming, formerly synchronized swimming, announced it would allow men to compete in the Paris Games, Bill May saw his chance. But the U.S. team chose only women. By Sarah ...
In late 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that at this summer’s Paris Olympic Games, men would be allowed to compete in artistic swimming (previously known as synchronized ...
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, ...
In late 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that at this summer’s Paris Olympic Games, men would be allowed to compete in artistic swimming (previously known as synchronized ...
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