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 Age
is just a number. Do you agree or not? Well, the woman in the picture
is the proof. Her name is Dara Torres.
She is a famous American swimmer. In 1982, Dara broke
her first world record in swimming at age 14.
So far, she has been in four Olympics. She has won a total of nine
Olympic medals, including four gold medals.
In 2000, in the Sydney Olympics, she won five medals as the oldest
member of the U.S. team, at age 33. This year, she is looking to compete in her fifth in Beijing.
Dara is likely to be one of the biggest stories of the
2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Why? She will be the oldest swimmer to
compete in the Olympic Games! Dara is 41 years old now. She recently went through 13
small surgeries on her knees, elbows, shoulders, hands and fingers. But it seems like
nothing can stop her.
Surprisingly, she is getting
older but swimming faster! Last November, Dara even broke the American
record for the 50-meter freestyle short course, swimming
it in under 24 seconds! Isn’t she amazing? |
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