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 ...

NORWELL — It looks pretty, like ballet in the water, but synchronized swimming requires strong legs, coordination and teamwork. The hardest part? “Holding your breath under water” — sometimes for a ...

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 ...

KIRKLAND — There comes a moment underwater when discomfort turns to pain and then to near-panic. And the brain, which would normally be telling the athlete, “Turn your torso this way, move your arm ...

Most people remember the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta for a pipe bombing and a dramatic one-legged vault landing by Kerri Strug. Not Michele Bennett. Though it received far less attention than the ...

Temperatures are on the rise again around Southern California, which makes the possibility of a pool, and time spent in a beautiful blue expanse, especially appealing. Stream Los Angeles News for free ...

It's a swimming competition not about speed but about artistry, control, balance and the ability to hold your breath underwater for a long time. Artistic swimming is the figure skating of the Summer ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook When it comes to art, bits and pieces of it can be found wherever we look, even in the most ...

They call themselves the Harlem Honeys and Bears, a group of synchronized swimmers who are from 55 to 97 years old. For them, swimming serves as elixir, a way to hold the aches and pains at bay.

I realize that I am funny to you. The fact that I spent more than 15 years donning sequined headpieces and swimsuits and forcing a smile while wearing noseclips and performing to the music of John ...

Standing at the pool's edge in full makeup, a slicked-back bun and a glittery emerald swimsuit, Sasha Boudko marked the close of yet another summer for girls across Fort Collins. Holding a microphone ...

Clad in black leggings, white ice skates and identical gray T-shirts, 18 girls glide over the ice. Groups of five hold hands and skate with one leg in the air, while others move in wheel-like motions ...