Dara Torres on ESPN 2

A little snort Fort and you never noticed the benifit. Have you tried it without a snort Fort? I guess it would be like slower without a snort. Is that something like I had a puff but did not inhale it. George, I know you're teasing, but GET REAL! Any normal person would not wish to have allergies and asthma. I was sick from mid-Dec. to mid-March this year with sinusitis and bronchitis. It completely destroys the quality of your life and does not in any way enhance racing or training. To the contrary! If someone is just taking a hit before they race and at no other time, Geek is right, they probably shouldn't be taking it at all. I only use an inhaler when I need it to breathe or fear not breathing. (Seeing imspoiled crawl out of the pool wheezing at zones is enough to scare anyone.) Unfortunately, I do think pools aggravate pre-existing respiratory problems or can trigger them. Pollen and ragweed too. Anything green or with fur, really. If you'd care to have my condition, it's FOR SALE!!! Now excuse me while I go take a hit before my early evening run. I'm still hacking and gasping. Oh, yes, I've raced plenty of times without an inhaler. Depends upon how my respiratory system is doing at that moment. FlyQueen, we FAFs may be lacking in the elongation category, but we can really rock our splits!! My lack of warm up did not even cause an injury. lol

FlyQueen, we FAFs may be lacking in the elongation category, but we can really rock our splits!! My lack of warm up did not even cause an injury. lol I think you FAF's got your warmup from all the beer you consumed at the Beer Garden.

The show will be rerun. I did a search and yippee I can even get it on HD. It's on next Monday at some time. I forget what time. I had to tape around all my HGTV shows.

In the segment, there was a comment from Orlando Sentinel newspaper columnist Andrea Adelson who said athletes like Torres, "...might as well show us where they keep the vials of human growth hormone." I feel that comment is hateful.

you never know what she's packing down low after all that German juice. That's offensive.

hocus pocus stuff. As a fan of the hocum pocum cute ;)

Another part of the story sports.espn.go.com/.../videopage This video was interesting... If they ever do another round table discussion like that, talking about Dara Torres, I'd like to be sitting there. Wasn't Andrechuck (spelling?) 46 when he won the Stanley Cup?

Dave , I knew his father,was a Hamiltonian I think he was 40 when he got they Stanley Cup ring. Gordie Howe one of the greatest played at 51 years of age. www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/.../LegendsMember.jsp

George, I know you're teasing, but GET REAL! Any normal person would not wish to have allergies and asthma. I was sick from mid-Dec. to mid-March this year with sinusitis and bronchitis. It completely destroys the quality of your life and does not in any way enhance racing or training. To the contrary! If someone is just taking a hit before they race and at no other time, Geek is right, they probably shouldn't be taking it at all. I only use an inhaler when I need it to breathe or fear not breathing. (Seeing imspoiled crawl out of the pool wheezing at zones is enough to scare anyone.) Unfortunately, I do think pools aggravate pre-existing respiratory problems or can trigger them. Pollen and ragweed too. Anything green or with fur, really. If you'd care to have my condition, it's FOR SALE!!! Now excuse me while I go take a hit before my early evening run. I'm still hacking and gasping. i can relate to imspoiled. I think I scare people sometimes wheezing. hypoxic sets are a real blast:rofl: I totally agree about pools aggravating existing respiratory conditions. I have had to change my breathing pattern when i swim fly now to 2up, one down on anything over a 50. it is really different. Anyway for anyone with REAL asthma there is nothing more scary than feeling like you can't breath. on a different note, when i am at the beach I breath ok and when i ski.

There were some truly idiotic comments during that interview. e.g. saying that her ankle flexibility and elongated body were reasons for her success. That statement describes 80% of the talent at US Nationals. Let's face it..... Anything that is laying out on her kitchen counter in front of the cameras is not going to have the "kick" of an illegal supplement. That whole thing was a complete waste of time and uneccessary. She is known for taking a lot of supplements already. She did this type of loading before 2000. Do we not remember the articles before Sydney? Read the 7th paragraph in the artcile below. www.athleticscholarships.net/performance-enhancing-drugs-swimming.htm Personally, I thought the interview added little informative value and gave more lime light to Dara.