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Dara G. Torres: I started swimming on a swim team when I was seven or eight years old. I had four older brothers and whatever they did I would do, so I would go to the pool with my mom and I didn’t like sitting in the bleachers and watching them swim, so I wanted to swim...
...Look, I mean I went into this race ranked fifth in the world, I’m a 41-year-old mom, not expecting to do anything, so the fact that I did get a silver is a great thing. I just like to win, so that’s why I think it’ll always eat at me that I lost by that close of a time...
...plopped her in the pool a few times. I really just did that for water safety, it is one of the sports she does along with some other ones, so she can choose what she does when she gets older. (Laughs) Psycho mom...
...Well, Michael Phelps called me “Mom.” I was trying to be more of a big sister. I found myself gravitating towards the coaches and trainers, because they’re more my age. But if they had questions, I was more than happy to help them and sort of guide them. I don’t know if it was more my age or more that I had been there so many times. But it was fun. I felt like I was useful and I was able to help...
...myself innocent and not have everyone assume because of my age that I was cheating. And you have Nolan Ryan, the baseball pitcher, pitching a no-hitter at 44 years old, and you have Jack Nicklaus, at Masters at 61. Why can’t a 41-year-old mom compete in the Olympic Games? Unfortunately, there are other athletes that have lied about it, and when you have that stigma on you and your accomplishments, I felt like that’s what I had to do, and just prove...