Dara Torres

Many athletes have pass their peak performance in the age of 30+, moreover 40+, thus decide to retire. But for US swimming legend, Dara Torres , age is just a number. Dara Torres gained her place as a sport legend by became the oldest swimmer ever (41-year-old by that time) to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team at the 2008 Summer Olympics . Dara Torres , born in April 15, 1967, competed in five Olympic Games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008). She became the first United States swimmer who...Read Full Story

DON'T MISS 20 Hot Olympic Athletes From the Beijing Summer Olympics It looks like hot athletic women are dominating the Olympics this year. Here are the sexy world class girls that made our ‘50 Most Beautiful Women’ list. 50. Dara Torres – United States Despite a shoulder operation in November 2007, Dara Torres not only qualified for the Beijing Olympics but also won the 100m free ahead of 25 year old Natalie Coughlin. Did I mention that she’s currently 41? See more sexy photos and videos of...Read Full Story

Dara Torres brings medals, Olympic stories to Palm Beach Day Academy Thursday, January 15, 2009 Robie Mendoza was beside himself after his encounter with five-time Olympic swimmer Dara Torres on Thursday morning at Palm Beach Day Academy's Seaview Campus. "It was awesome," the ninth-grader said. "It was amazing." Robie, 15, said he even kissed the silver medal Torres brought to show the children. It was one of three she won in Beijing at age 41. In previous Games, she's scooped up nine medals...Read Full Story

Dara Torres has downloaded a bunch of movies and piled up all sorts of books, anything to pass the time over the next few months. She won't be racing anyone in the pool for a while — or doing much of anything else, for that matter. Another Olympics? No one really knows. The 42-year-old Torres is heading to Boston for the most daunting challenge of her long swimming career Tuesday, a radical surgery that involves cutting her left shin, adjusting it to a new position under the kneecap and...Read Full Story

NEW YORK, Aug 19 (Reuters Life) - When it comes to late-night scavenging in the pantry, 12-time Olympic medalist Dara Torres insists she is like anyone else -- out for something sweet as a reward for the daily juggle of work, swimming and her family. "I have big huge blocks of milk chocolate that I just love," the 42-year-old swimmer told Reuters in a recent interview at the Asphalt Green pool in Manhattan's Upper East Side. "And I love making Rice Krispie treats. I'm not the super, super...Read Full Story

The Incredible Ageless Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres Hey - do you remember that 41 year old swimmer who won 3 silver medals back at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing? Dara Torres? She was amazing. Totally amazing. Since then she had to take a two year layoff from competitive swimming and have reconstructive knee surgery that initially left her unable to climb stairs or even play with her 4 year old daughter. Well... guess what. She just qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials. She managed...Read Full Story

Dara Torres Olympic medalist and hero to middle-aged weekend warriors everywhere Dara Torres has announced to compete in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. It will be held in London in 2012. Torres is a great athlete half her age. She played her last Olympics in 2008 at the Beijing games. In this game, she won three silver metals. Torres has won 12 Olympic medals in her career. She took four silver and four bronze. In 2009, U.S. National Championship, she won the 50-meter freestyle and 50-meter...Read Full Story

“You can quote me. There is no more (after 2012). I’m done.”  49 year-old Olympic swimmer Dara Torres said after finding out she made the cut for the 2012 London games. Between now and then we can expect to be entertained by the body and athlete that defies time and age.  The four-time Olympic gold medal winner earned her first Olympic medal more than 20 years ago – at a time when some of her competitors were just born.  If she competes in London she will be 45 years old and it will be her...Read Full Story

Dara Torres brings medals, Olympic stories to Palm Beach Day Academy Thursday, January 15, 2009 Robie Mendoza was beside himself after his encounter with five-time Olympic swimmer Dara Torres on Thursday morning at Palm Beach Day Academy's Seaview Campus. "It was awesome," the ninth-grader said. "It was amazing." Robie, 15, said he even kissed the silver medal Torres brought to show the children. It was one of three she won in Beijing at age 41. In previous Games, she's scooped up nine medals...Read Full Story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Olympic swimming heroine Dara Torres pauses, her delicate hazel eyes narrow, and she stares at a tiny puddle of water that has splashed out of the pool. The inspirational 42-year-old Floridian badly wants to compete at the London Olympics in 2012 but ponders the potential deal-breakers -- her age, her health and her devotion to her three-year-old daughter Tessa. "I have a little less than a year to figure it out what I want to do," she said. "I really want my knee to heal...Read Full Story