Beyond the lipstick, sequins and fixed smiles you find synchronised swimming tests lung-busting endurance, athleticism, artistry and technical skill to the limit. The swimmers perform precision ...
Olympics viewers may have noticed that synchronized swimming goes by another name these days: artistic swimming. The moniker made its Olympic debut at the 2020 Tokyo Games in 2021, nearly 40 years ...
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 ...
At the World Aquatics Championships, which begin this weekend in Russia, men will be competing in synchronised swimming for the first time. Men were a part of the sport at its inception, but until now ...
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has today named nine synchronised swimmers as officially selected to compete for Team GB at the London 2012 Olympic Games. The selected athletes include Jenna ...
Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...
Growing up on the Pembrokeshire coast, many of photographer Eva Watkins’ happiest moments were spent in the water – surfing and swimming. But for the final project of her BA in photography at the ...
I’m treading chlorinated water, a flowery swimming cap that would make Esther Williams weep with envy on my head. My neck sticks rigidly out of the water; my jaws ache from my rictus grin. Beside me, ...
An 11-year-old boy is becoming the aquatic Billy Elliot by rejecting traditional male sports to become the only boy in a 25-strong synchronised swimming team. In an echo of the hit film, where a boy ...
China's team perform in the synchronised swimming teams free routine final during the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Aquatics Centre August 10, 2012. [Photo/Agencies] China's team perform in the ...