Olympic Synchronized Swimming News

For novices contemplating taking the plunge this coming Friday as part of the annual New Year's run-swim, one of southeastern Connecticut's must enduring and endearing traditions, allow me to clarify a few misapprehensions.

You can add Olympian Janice Birch to the list of local torchbearers for the 2010 Olympic torch relay.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, December 16. LOCATED on Fort Lauderdale's magnificent beachfront since 1965, the International Swimming Hall of Fame today announced the Honoree Induction Class of 2010.

Jodi Aspden is not going to the Vancouver Olympic Games. "I wish," said the program coordinator at the Tillsonburg Community Complex.

Celebrating power of hope Romeo Dallaire carries Olympic flame through Canada's capital By JOAN BRYDEN The Canadian Press Sun.

Torchbearer and Ottawa Senators GM Bryan Murray, left, hands off the Olympic Flame to Stephen Hale, of Truro, N.S., on the Samuel de Champlain lookout above the Ottawa river in Ottawa, Ont., Saturday December 12, 2009.

Chronicle, Brenda Chance. Beaconsfield lights up for torch celebration Centennial Park in Beaconsfield came alive last night to the sound of over a 1,000 visitors come to admire a unique celebration surrounding the lighting of an Olympic Cauldron by local torchbearer Benjamin Mumme.

The Aquatics Division of the city of Largo Recreation, Parks and Arts Department invites the public to attend the holiday water show, 'A Giving Season,' on Saturday, Dec.

Comcast Corp.'s possible acquisition of NBC Universal could have a significant impact beyond who signs Jay Leno's paycheck and how many hours of synchronized swimming are shown in the 2012 Olympics.

Today's list includes some randomly selected riders and others who were bound to be picked.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, November 26. TEN of the best teams in the planet will compete from November 27-29, 2009 in the fourth edition of the FINA Synchro World Trophy, taking place in Montreal .

Canada's synchronized swim team won the FINA World Trophy title Sunday. Canada's total score accumulated during the three-day competition was 491.666 points, followed by Russia with 491.333 points, and Spain with 485.666 points.

In the run-up to the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, several female runners launched a court challenge against Olympic officials in the United States and abroad, claiming the decision not to include women's 5,000- and 10,000-metre events amounted to illegal discrimination.

She once starred alongside MGM movie legend Esther Williams , but former synchronized swimmer and coach Mary Rose of Altamonte Springs was a legend in her own right.

The Olympics of 2008 are long, long gone and largely forgotten. Those athletes who ran; who swam; who dived; who launched various objects into the air; who jumped; who fired guns; who shot arrows; who fenced, biked, volleyballed, baseballed, basketballed, rowed, played polo, canoed and rode horses; those who tumbled, danced, swung on high bars, ...

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, November 24. THE top synchronized swimming countries in the world will flock to Montreal, Canada, November 27 - 29 for the 4th FINA World Trophy competition.

Canada's synchronized swimming team didn't have to think long about a theme that represents their country for one of the top acts at the upcoming FINA World Trophy competition - hockey.

Indianapolis will play host to the 2010 World Junior Championships in synchronized swimming, USA Synchro announed today.

If Canada did not have enough Games hysteria happening in the form of the upcoming Vancouver Olympics, therea TMs more a ' Toronto has landed a successful bid for the 2015 Pan American Games.

Bia and Branca Feres are this week's sporting hotties providing us with our biggest conundrum yet in the boot room.