Dara Torres-Amazing

Tracy & I wannafly...although all evidence from this forum may lead you to believe the opposite...I don't live my life as a sad, angry, hateful, skeptic...I'm actually quite an optimist. the fact that you had no knowledge of failed drug tests is evidence enough you are far away from this "world". But the fact is you base your beliefs simply on your "heart"...not from daily communication with athletes and coaches close to this stuff, not from your own personal experience getting to a fairly high level of training/racing (not masters) and seeing first hand what's its like to try and make these break thru's, seeing the physiological changes of athletes around you that have cheated up close and personal...bottom line is I'm hopeful but also a realist in that I think there is far more cheating going on in swimming than people want to accept and if we want a cleaner sport we need to scrutinize anomalies such as what Dara has achieved....notice I said scrutinize. Okay Paul, I'll give you benefit of the doubt about being an optimist, despite the fact that apparently you drink cheap wine, because I hear that you're a pretty nice guy. And I'll disagree with you on basing my beliefs on my "heart". I believe that people are fundamentally good and until there is credible evidence to the contrary, I continue to believe that. I used to follow track & field a lot. I remember following the 100 m dash up to the 1988 games. I remember the changes that Ben Johnson underwent. Admittedly, I was only 18 at the time, so I just assumed that he was working really hard. He probably was, but he also had that little something extra working for him. I will continue to believe in Dara Torres until some evidence comes up. You know that if she's cheating, somebody, one of these days, will figure out a way to out her. Just like McNamee did to Clemens! She has to have made some enemies along the way.

Tracy & I wannafly...although all evidence from this forum may lead you to believe the opposite...I don't live my life as a sad, angry, hateful, skeptic...I'm actually quite an optimist. the fact that you had no knowledge of failed drug tests is evidence enough you are far away from this "world". But the fact is you base your beliefs simply on your "heart"...not from daily communication with athletes and coaches close to this stuff, not from your own personal experience getting to a fairly high level of training/racing (not masters) and seeing first hand what's its like to try and make these break thru's, seeing the physiological changes of athletes around you that have cheated up close and personal...bottom line is I'm hopeful but also a realist in that I think there is far more cheating going on in swimming than people want to accept and if we want a cleaner sport we need to scrutinize anomalies such as what Dara has achieved....notice I said scrutinize. Okay Paul, I'll give you benefit of the doubt about being an optimist, despite the fact that apparently you drink cheap wine, because I hear that you're a pretty nice guy. And I'll disagree with you on basing my beliefs on my "heart". I believe that people are fundamentally good and until there is credible evidence to the contrary, I continue to believe that. I used to follow track & field a lot. I remember following the 100 m dash up to the 1988 games. I remember the changes that Ben Johnson underwent. Admittedly, I was only 18 at the time, so I just assumed that he was working really hard. He probably was, but he also had that little something extra working for him. I will continue to believe in Dara Torres until some evidence comes up. You know that if she's cheating, somebody, one of these days, will figure out a way to out her. Just like McNamee did to Clemens! She has to have made some enemies along the way.