Middle-aged mom triumphs
Andra posted 8 weeks 3 days ago — 
Torres’ feel-good story too good?
By Charles Robinson, Yahoo! Sports Jul 5, 2:36 am EDT
OMAHA, Neb. – As Olympic stories go, it is an exclamation mark on an achievement that will spend the next two months being bent into a question mark.
Knowing that fact, Dara Torres spent part of Friday night shrugging off the doubt that is bound to settle on her chiseled shoulders over the next two months. At 41 years old and having qualified for her fifth Olympic team, the marble-physiqued Torres now owns potentially the most intriguing feel-good story line this side of Michael Phelps.
And with it, she also has materialized as the Olympian most likely to bear the brunt of suspicious success in the post-BALCO era.
At 41, she has done what most would have termed impossible since retiring (for the second time, no less) after the 2000 games: bear a child, get diagnosed with asthma, go through recent knee and shoulder surgeries, and arrive at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials posting faster times than in her mid-20s. Yet, when she touched a wall in the 100-meter freestyle Friday night, she squinted at digits that seemed downright impossible. Torres qualified for the Olympic team by edging out a 25-year-old Natalie Coughlin by five one hundredths of a second – 53.78 to 53.83 – in an event in which Coughlin holds the American record.
Amazing woman and role model for all mothers and daughters!
Call Me Middle-Aged? I was watching the Olympic trials and I was so surprised to see Dara Torres was a 41 year old. It gives me hope that if I keep on track my years will be filled with more health and fitness. I am 42 and I swim, run and love to walk our Chocolate Lab, Maggie. I have two boys, eight and ten. They are swimmers and love most sports. Young moms need to see this and take control of their fitness. Just get active. Leave the car in the garage. The gasoline cost too much anyhow. You can do it. And as for Dara, well, she is on top at the Olympics! Go Girl!