Kristina Makushenko, a retired four-time world champion in synchronized swimming, performed Rachael Gunn’s viral breakdance routine from the 2024 Paris Olympics — while under water and wearing high ...

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 ...

One of the most wow-worthy moments of the Olympic Games in Paris came during one of Team USA Artistic Swimming's performance. During the team technical routine round, Team USA artistic swimming ...

The longer you stay underwater, kicking your feet, sculling your arms against all that heaviness and bright blue, the worse it gets. Legs cramp, fingers tingle and lungs burn as the brain screams for ...

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 ...

The Lake County YMCA does a lot more than give the community a clean and safe place to simply swim a few laps. Above or below water, there is an elite aquatics show going on, and the Central YMCA’s ...

From NPR News, this is WEEKEND EDITION. I'm Ari Shapiro. As part of NPR's series on American athletes preparing for the Summer Olympics, we're going to take a look at synchronized swimming. This sport ...

Artistic swimming — also sometimes referred to as synchronized swimming — isn't among the most popular sports at the Olympics. But what these athletes do, particularly underwater, requires incredible ...