Olympic Synchronized Swimming News

WAM Dubai, 13th June 2013 - Dubai is generally fairly quiet in August but that will not be the case this year as a record 905 athletes and 362 officials representing 93 nations will arrive to compete in the biggest ever World Junior Swimming Championships.

A Fraser Valley-based synchronized swim club with a Langley connection garnered a top-10 result at a national competition recently.

She helped to popularize synchronized swimming through the hugely popular MGM movies she made in the '40s and '50s.

Free Ferry Day to the Boston Harbor Islands Boston Harbor Island Alliance is proud to announce free ferry service to Spectacle and Georges Islands.

Two things that taste great... Y La Bamba and synchronized swimming. This 16mm-shot video for the song "Ponce Pilato," off their album Oh February , is a dreamy confection, floating among big trees and deep waters.

Another movie legend bit the dust. Last week, Ester Williams left us at the age of 91. Not bad for a girl who started out as a championship swimmer and finished as an accomplished movie star, social celebrity and political activist.

As a teenager, Esther Williams dreamed of Olympic glory on the U.S. swim team. She had to settle instead for becoming a movie star.

Today Evans will join Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, LA84 Foundation President and International Olympic Committee Member Anita L. DeFrantz, and Swimming Foundation at the Alondra Community Regional Park pool to celebrate the launch of LA84 Foundation's 2013 Summer Swim Program.

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 6. CHINA made the most of its surprising defeat of the United States in the semifinals of the FINA world league tournament by beating Russia in the gold medal match 8-7.

Esther Williams, competitive swimmer around whom Hollywood fashioned a niche genre - the aquatic musical, has died at 91 .

LOS ANGELES, California, June 6. RENOWNED swimmer and Hollywood star Esther Williams died this morning at her home at age 91. Williams will forever be known to the general public as one of the great Hollywood film stars of the 1940s and 1950, but her star first began to shine in 1939 at the national championships, where she set the American record ... (more)

BARCELONA, Spain, June 5. WE'RE 44 days from the start of the FINA world aquatics championships, and host city Barcelona got into the spirit of aquatic sports with a special flash mob performance of the event's theme song, "Planeta Agua ."

This summer, when you find yourself enjoying all of the water recreation this country has to offer, think about lending a hand to keep it all clean.

The Ohio State Varsity "O" Association announced yesterday it will be inducting 11 new members - five women and six men - into the Hall of Fame for 2003.

For Mary Beth Dunnichay, the 2008 Beijing Olympics almost seem like a lifetime ago.

Emmanuella Tchakmakjian , daughter of Local Dentist Dr. Evelina Dragneva of Dental Care of Stamford and Dr.