Dara Torres-Amazing

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. We agree! I will continue to accept that she has not failed any tests is innocent until prven guilty, but I will also continue to have doubts when I see athletic performaces that break boundries sucha as this. And Tracy...to be clear I have not spoken to anyone who has evidence that Dara has cheated. I have spoken to a lot of folks that feel very strongly that there is far more cheating in swimming going on than we can imagine and that maybe the naivette that has existed in our sport has kept us from being as vigilant as maybe we could. SCY...are you just guessing or have you actually read much about this? I have yet to read anything that supports your position? I've read very little that supports the position that speed declines and endurance gains. Here's an interesting example sort of supports both of our positions: Speed and age - The bad news is that speed declines with age; the good news is that you can arrest, even reverse, this degenerative process "Fast-twitch muscle fibre, that most precious of commodities for speed and power, displays a much more marked decline than slow-twitch fibre as we age. Speedsters, it appears, are not as blessed as endurance athletes in the ageing-and-performance stakes. The latter can expect to maintain their slow twitch fibres and even increase them – by as much as 20% with the right training – as they ripen. They can also hold on to nearly all their aerobic capacity until late into their fifth decade at least. If only it were so for their sprinting counterparts, whose fast-twitch fibre can decline by as much as 30% between the ages of 20 and 80. " www.pponline.co.uk/.../speed-age.html I hate cheating/cheaters

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. We agree! I will continue to accept that she has not failed any tests is innocent until prven guilty, but I will also continue to have doubts when I see athletic performaces that break boundries sucha as this. And Tracy...to be clear I have not spoken to anyone who has evidence that Dara has cheated. I have spoken to a lot of folks that feel very strongly that there is far more cheating in swimming going on than we can imagine and that maybe the naivette that has existed in our sport has kept us from being as vigilant as maybe we could. SCY...are you just guessing or have you actually read much about this? I have yet to read anything that supports your position? I've read very little that supports the position that speed declines and endurance gains. Here's an interesting example sort of supports both of our positions: Speed and age - The bad news is that speed declines with age; the good news is that you can arrest, even reverse, this degenerative process "Fast-twitch muscle fibre, that most precious of commodities for speed and power, displays a much more marked decline than slow-twitch fibre as we age. Speedsters, it appears, are not as blessed as endurance athletes in the ageing-and-performance stakes. The latter can expect to maintain their slow twitch fibres and even increase them – by as much as 20% with the right training – as they ripen. They can also hold on to nearly all their aerobic capacity until late into their fifth decade at least. If only it were so for their sprinting counterparts, whose fast-twitch fibre can decline by as much as 30% between the ages of 20 and 80. " www.pponline.co.uk/.../speed-age.html I hate cheating/cheaters