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Artistic swimming is a unique sport on the Olympic program that combines water acrobatics with music. During the Olympic Games, the sport consists of two events: a duet competition and an eight-person team competition. Each event is made up of multiple performances that include a free routine and technical routine. The team competition also includes an acrobatic routine. A panel of judges scores athletes based on their execution, synchronization, degree of difficulty, use of music and choreography. Athletes competing in artistic swimming must be flexible and maintain great attention to detail and coordination in order to execute routines successfully. 

Since artistic swimming first became an Olympic discipline at the 1984 Los Angeles Games, only women have been allowed to participate. However, in 2022, the sport's governing body amended its rules to allow up to two male athletes to participate per nation in the team discipline. Paris 2024 was expected to feature the first male athletes to ever compete in artistic swimming at the Olympics, though none were named to any of the 10 participating teams.