Hello, I'm Dashiani Navanayagam and welcome to the conversation from the BBC World Service.
This is the show which amplifies women's voices and allows us to hear some incredible experiences and insights from women around the world.
Today, we look at the highly competitive world of artistic swimming.
It's what used to be known as synchronised swimming,
a combination of dance and gymnastics underwater.
It requires discipline, stamina, creativity, and years of rigorous training.
And athletes are judged, not just on their technique, but also their artistic expression.
To tell us more, I'm joined by Emma Garcia from Spain and Silvia Shoy Mosheova from Slovakia.
Emma is a European champion and winner of over 30 artistic swimming medals.
She's now the vice chair of the European Aquatics Athletics Committee.
And Silvia is a multiple world championships finalist and double European champion She's also the first artistic swimmer to gain more than a million social media followers after videos of her dancing underwater,
including walking upside down, went viral.
Emma and Sylvia are very warm welcome to the conversation.
Sylvia, let's start with you.
If you had to explain the sport,
if you had to explain artistic swimming to someone who has never seen it, how would you describe it?
So I would say it depends if you're watching like a solo or duet or mix duet or team routine
because in solo there's one person,
in duet there's two people,
mix duet also two people but there's a girl and a boy and in team routines there can be eight people or ten people.