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 ...

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 ...

It might be one of the more unconventional Olympic sports, but artistic swimming (formerly synchronized swimming) is making headlines, specifically with Team USA’s recent performance. The ladies ...

In a story in this week’s magazine, available to TIME subscribers, we explore the financial challenges facing athletes in low-revenue Olympic sports like synchronized swimming. The U.S. is one of the ...

Set to music from Kanye West, Fall Out Boy and even a Charlie’s Angels medley, a dozen swimmers weave throughout a Cooke Hall pool while incorporating spins, intricate leg kicks and lifts that see ...

John Dabiri isn’t an oceanographer. And he’s not a biologist. But for more than a decade, he’s been studying tiny shrimp swimming through water. It hasn’t always been easy. John Dabiri isn’t an ...

When the United States won silver in team artistic swimming Aug. 7 in Paris for just its third Olympic medal, it was cause for celebration in the synchronized swimming community. It was also an ...

Every four years at the Olympics, the world gets invested in a number of sports that rarely are part of the public consciousness in non-Olympic years. Whether that’s the marquee Olympic events like ...

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 ...

Sarah C. Johns of St. Paul, author of the novel "The Sirens of Soleil City." CATHY WURZER: Well, coming of age stories, I love them. They're great. But what about a beach read with those whose main ...