Artistic swimming Olympics schedule: Men can compete for the first time in Paris in 2024.
What to Know
- In artistic swimming, there are team competitions and duet competitions at the 2024 Paris Olympics
- Athletes make their routine look effortless but training for artistic swimming is grueling
- Check out the full artistic swimming Olympics schedule below
The introduction of men participants in artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronized swimming, is set to create history at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
At 1:30 p.m. ET on Monday, the Olympics Aquatics Center will host the inaugural competition of this unusual Olympic sport that blends music and water acrobatics. Three routines make up the team competition: an acrobatic, a free, and a technical routine. There is a technical routine and a free routine for the duet competition. This is the first time an acrobatic routine has been incorporated. According to NBC Olympics, the US will participate in the technical routine to the song "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson as the eighth of ten countries.
A panel of judges assigns points to competitors based on their choreography, song selection, degree of difficulty, execution, and synchronization. In order to perform routines well, swimmers competing in artistic swimming must be flexible and maintain a high level of coordination and attention to detail.
Games July 17, 2023 For the first time ever, men will compete in artistic swimming at the Olympics in Paris.
“We're training eight-plus hours a day, treading water all day,” she said. “You have to be able to count time and work with music. You have to be able to watch your patterns and stay in line. We don't wear goggles when we compete. You're holding your breath. You don't touch the bottom. There are so many elements that go into it that people don't see.”
How to watch artistic swimming
You can watch the first competition live on Peacock or stream on nbcolympics.com starting at 1:30 p.m. ET or on E! at 2:00 p.m. ET.
Artistic swimming Olympics schedule:
| Date | Event | Time (ET) |
| August 5 | Team technical routine | 1:30p-3:00p |
| August 6 | Team free routine | 1:30p-3:00p |
| August 7 | Team acrobatic routine | 1:30p-3:15p |
| August 9 | Duet technical routine | 1:30p-3:30p |
| August 10 | Duet free routine | 1:30p-4:00p |
Since the sport of artistic swimming was added to the Olympic program at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, only female competitors have been permitted. But in 2022, the body that oversees the sport changed its regulations to let a maximum of two male competitors per country to compete in the team event. Though none of the ten teams that qualified were announced, it was anticipated that male competitors will compete in artistic swimming at the Olympics in Paris in 2024.
North American nations, in particular the United States and Canada, had early success in the Olympic swimming program. Ever since the 2000 Sydney Games, Russia (including the Russian Olympic Committee) has become the clear leader, taking home every gold medal in both sports. The streak will end, though, because Russia is not permitted to enter a team or duet in Paris as a result of an IOC ruling about the current conflict in Ukraine.
The United States will compete in the Paris Games' duet and team competitions for the first time since Beijing 2008.
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