Dara just one the national title in the 100M Freestyle in 54.4 at the ripe old age of 40. Simply Incredible. :applaud: :woot:
If that's not inspiring I don't know what is.
She reached her peak at 41.
I might say not yet. Given how she trains, and recovers, it's very likely she'll be swimming with the same speed in 3 years and 10 months.
The real question is whether or not US swimming produces a girl who can beat her at the next trials.
Right on!!! She should keep swimming... and then she'll break the world record sometime in the next 4 years...
Apparently not retiring yet...
And Torres? After proclaiming herself retired before leaving Beijing, she has found the strength, in the handshakes of everyone she meets, to keep swimming for another year — or four.
www.nytimes.com/.../23swim.html
Apparently not retiring yet...
And Torres? After proclaiming herself retired before leaving Beijing, she has found the strength, in the handshakes of everyone she meets, to keep swimming for another year — or four.
www.nytimes.com/.../23swim.html
Right on!!! She should keep swimming... and then she'll break the world record sometime in the next 4 years...
She could probably do it again, why not - ride this thing out as much as she can. It will be a long time before anyone can repeat what she has accomplished.
Only Dara can truly understand what it feels like to be Cavic!
She said in an interview that at one point she said to others that she would hate to have been that guy who lost to Michael Phelps by 1/100th of a second. Later, she lost by 1/100th of a second. She smiled, laughed, and said she must have jinxed herself.
She reached her peak at 41. In Sydney, she was only able to get bronze in her individual events.
I'm not so sure she has peaked. The way she's been dropping her 50 and 100 times like an age grouper, by London she could be the first woman to go under 23 and under 52.
