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 ...

The first half of the women's duets synchronized swimming preliminaries played out in Rio on Sunday morning — and in a clear, no-longer-green-and-algae-filled pool (so the judges could better monitor ...

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 ...

Off-Ramp's Elyssa Dudley reports on the resurfacing of synchronized swimming. A few years ago, synchronized swimming seemed like a lost art, a throwback to the 1940s, with its flowered swimming caps ...

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 ...

Redmond's Hartman Pool is offering a free synchronized swimming lesson on January 14 with Seattle Synchronized Swim: Saturday, January 14, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. For ages 6-12, able to swim a lap of crawl ...

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, ...