NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the Games head to our latest updates. SAINT-DENIS, France — Let’s get one thing straight: There’s so much more to artistic ...

The sport, formerly known as synchronized swimming, has a new name as well as more muscular athletes and more risky tricks. At a minimum, it demands endurance, power, leonine grace, hair gelatin, ...

While I, as an amateur powerlifter, can maaaybe picture myself on an Olympic weightlifting platform when I’m feeling particularly delulu, there are some events I know I’d never succeed in at the Games ...

Artistic swimming returns to Paris with a revamped scoring system and defending gold medalists. Artistic swimming, known for its fusion of water acrobatics and music, first made waves decades ago.

Artistic swimming is a crowd-pleaser and much harder than it used to be, but it has had to make the case that it is even a sport at all. By Sarah Lyall Being an artistic swimmer at the Olympics takes ...

While a lot of people think artistic swimming is delightfully antiquated—a bunch of “bathing beauties” in floral swim caps and cherry-lipped smiles—that idea is a tired old stereotype that Daniella ...

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 ...