If Bill May makes the U.S. Olympic team, he will become the first man ever to compete in artistic swimming, formerly known as synchronized swimming, at the Games.
Bill May and U.S. Olympic artistic swimming teammates training in Los Angeles last month.
By Sarah Lyall
Photographs by Daniel Dorsa
Reporting from Los Angeles
- June 6, 2024Updated 9:40 a.m. ET
As you watch the U.S. Artistic Swimming team practice for the Olympics — their bodies upside down, their legs scissoring in the air in perfect time, like frenzied offshore wind turbines — you will notice two things.