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 ...

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 ...

Most people think of synchronized swimming, which gained Olympic status in 1984 and was renamed “artistic swimming” in 2017, as a newcomer sport dating back only as far as Esther Williams‘ mid-century ...