Credit Malin Fezehai/The New York Times Jamaica Has Never Had Olympic Synchronized Swimmers. For a small country, Jamaica has won an impressive 78 Olympic medals , but there has never been a Jamaican synchronized swimming team in the Olympics. Credit Malin Fezehai/The New York TimesBut that isn’t going to discourage the magnitude of these girls’ dreams. She would pick out the strongest swimmers of those she was teaching and ask if they were interested in synchronized swimming. Katana was one of Novokshchenova’s beginner swimming students, and her father encouraged her to join the synchronized swimming team.

Source: New York Times January 29, 2018 09:56 UTC