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 ...

SINGAPORE, July 25. /TASS/. For the first time since 1994, Russian athletes failed to top the medal standings in synchronized swimming at the World Aquatics Championships. At the tournament, the ...

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 ...

THE NATION’S LONGEST RUNNING SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING CLUB IS TURNING 99. THE SHARKS OF ROOSEVELT HIGH IN DES MOINES STARTED UP IN 1926. IT WAS THE FIRST CLUB THAT GIRLS AT THE SCHOOL COULD JOIN. TONIGHT ...