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 ...

Frithjof Seidel has ended his unique national team career as a man in women-dominated synchronized swimming. "I have reached a certain age and want to focus on other aspects in my life, as much as I ...

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 a story in this week’s magazine, available to TIME subscribers, we explore the financial challenges facing athletes in low-revenue Olympic sports like synchronized swimming. The U.S. is one of the ...

For more than a decade, movie fans from around the world have descended on Hollywood each spring for the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival. At the first outing in 2010, screen legends Esther ...

It might be one of the more unconventional Olympic sports, but artistic swimming (formerly synchronized swimming) is making headlines, specifically with Team USA’s recent performance. The ladies ...

Lizzy Collins is a former kindergarten teacher who’s now a carpenter, busy remodeling people’s homes. Hanging Sheetrock, she said, is her specialty. But when she’s not swinging a hammer, Collins is ...

Despite the new rule change, no men ended up making it on the Olympic artistic swim teams Athena Sobhan is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously appeared in POPSUGAR, ...

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 ...

Miami's Daniella Ramirez and the U.S. artistic swimming team won silver at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, the Americans' first medal in the team event since bronze in Athens in 2004. China won gold, ...

MOSCOW, August 19 /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Russian synchronized swimmers Natalya Ishchenko, Svetlana Romashina, Svetlana Kolesnichenko, Alexandra Patskevich, Yelena ...

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, ...