Anastasia Ermakova and Anastasia Davydova, who already won gold in the duet earlier in the week, were also part of Russia's eight-woman squad for the team event. Russia won its third consecutive team ...

FUKUOKA, Japan--Snicker if you wish. Guffaw for good measure. Bill May and other male synchronized swimmers — now called artistic swimmers — have heard the putdowns before. But they're getting the ...

For the same baffling reasons they do many other things, the Japanese have been competing in synchronized team precision walking since 1966. They call it Shuudan Koudou and, as you can imagine, they ...

We’re deep in the grip of the Olympics right now, with the world’s nations gathered together in Brazil to fight for the right to say they’re better at judo and table tennis than anyone else. But ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's synchronized swimmers can keep their nose pegs and sparkly costumes but will be banned from having brightly decorated fingernails or dying their hair. Japanese officials have ...

An old video of Japanese students who have taken walking to a whole new level is going crazy viral again across social media platforms, and the reasons will become quite clear to you once you watch it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan's female synchronised swimming team aims to restore the country's dominance in the sport as it gears up for the 2016 Summer ...

As much as we’ve vouched for the health benefits of walking, we still wouldn’t exactly call it a sport. Not surprisingly, the Japanese would disagree with that. Since the 1960s, groups of students at ...