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 ...

Robin Wagner dances without touching toes to the floor. She gracefully extends her legs, turns, bends, and flips, sometimes floating through choreographed moves. "It's like being in ballet, but some ...

LONDON (AP) — Time for those swirling ribbons and shiny balls, the nose clips and sparkly caps. The Michael Phelps-Ryan Lochte show in London is long over. So is all-around gymnastics. Two of the ...

There are two women-only clubs in the Olympic Games: rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming. Both are capable of sparking fraught debates about the balance of opportunities in the Games—except ...

Trampoline gymnastics was incorporated into the Olympic program in Sydney 2000 and since then its growth has not stopped. In the 37th World Specialty Championships starting today in Birmingham, 350 ...

I realize that I am funny to you. The fact that I spent more than 15 years donning sequined headpieces and swimsuits and forcing a smile while wearing noseclips and performing to the music of John ...