Dara Torres-Amazing

-- she looks too muscular I think the second is weak; none of the physical declines you mention seem to prohibit greater muscular development. Chris, speaking for myself and John I can tell you that we have never said any such thing. The point of the photos of Dara over her career and part of our doubts have to do not with being muscular, but of the major tranformational shifts in her physique. Remember, we are not talking about an out of shape 40 year old housewife making a masters comeback here....Dara NEVER let herself get out of shape at any time that she had stopped competing....true she wasn't logging major swimming yardage but trust me...she was FIT. Take it as just a coincedence but in her 2000 comeback she happened to be training with Quick in the Bay Area along with Jenny (AVD wasn't in that group but was also massive physically)...and it just so happens that there were loose associations with all of them and Balco... Granted testimony/records are sealed....something many has voiced very loudly there objections to. Also remember that this was the time that the clear/cream were in heavy use and were undetectable..and also when Bonds seemed to have the same type of transformation (size/bulk) and later was busted. Fast forward to the new "build" of Dara...far more lean and ripped....much more like Inge...and for some strange reason the same type of effect associated with HGH...which there is no reliable test for. And by the way...dropping 2 seconds in the 50 is astronomical. I can't tell you of a single sprinter who was in decent shape and swam that race....then trained hard for a year and swam it again that dropped 2 seconds...Anthony even went 19 high in one of his first comeback meets after playing guitar in NY for a few years and no way was he training anything like Dara. So....do I have doubts?...yes. Am I willing to "convict"?....no way. I just hope we see far more intensive testing and development of baseline bios on top tier athletes that will allow testers to detect changes that may indicate a new designer drug not yet on the radar.

-- she looks too muscular I think the second is weak; none of the physical declines you mention seem to prohibit greater muscular development. Chris, speaking for myself and John I can tell you that we have never said any such thing. The point of the photos of Dara over her career and part of our doubts have to do not with being muscular, but of the major tranformational shifts in her physique. Remember, we are not talking about an out of shape 40 year old housewife making a masters comeback here....Dara NEVER let herself get out of shape at any time that she had stopped competing....true she wasn't logging major swimming yardage but trust me...she was FIT. Take it as just a coincedence but in her 2000 comeback she happened to be training with Quick in the Bay Area along with Jenny (AVD wasn't in that group but was also massive physically)...and it just so happens that there were loose associations with all of them and Balco... Granted testimony/records are sealed....something many has voiced very loudly there objections to. Also remember that this was the time that the clear/cream were in heavy use and were undetectable..and also when Bonds seemed to have the same type of transformation (size/bulk) and later was busted. Fast forward to the new "build" of Dara...far more lean and ripped....much more like Inge...and for some strange reason the same type of effect associated with HGH...which there is no reliable test for. And by the way...dropping 2 seconds in the 50 is astronomical. I can't tell you of a single sprinter who was in decent shape and swam that race....then trained hard for a year and swam it again that dropped 2 seconds...Anthony even went 19 high in one of his first comeback meets after playing guitar in NY for a few years and no way was he training anything like Dara. So....do I have doubts?...yes. Am I willing to "convict"?....no way. I just hope we see far more intensive testing and development of baseline bios on top tier athletes that will allow testers to detect changes that may indicate a new designer drug not yet on the radar.