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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The nation’s longest running synchronized swim club is at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines. The nation’s longest running synchronized swim club is at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines. Dive under ...

MOMENT. AND THEY SHOULD ENJOY EVERY SINGLE SECOND OF BEING A CHAMPION. SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT’S THEIR TO DO. WE ALL REMEMBER IT. A COUPLE OF SUNDAYS AGO, LSU DEFEATED IOWA FOR THE NATIONAL TITLE, ...

As you reach the end of the long and beautifully appointed main corridor at Mirador Retirement Community, you begin to realize that this isn't your grandma's nursing home. OK, fine. Maybe it actually ...