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Twelve Olympic medals. Five Olympic Games. A laundry list of American and world records. This is the resume of elite swimmer Dara G. Torres, who at the age of 41 won three silver medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics as the oldest member of the US Olympic swim team. During...
2. FM: At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, you won silver in the 50 meter freestyle, missing out on gold by one hundredth of a second. How did you feel about losing out on the gold by such a close margin?
DGT: After the ’92 Olympics I actually got into television for a while. I was doing sports commentating. I did a little bit of that for the 2000 Olympics. I like interviewing people. I know that I’ve been asked some real lame questions in...
Many sports fans will point to the famed Sports Illustrated jinx for hexing Vonn: the skier got the double whammy, having appeared both on a recent cover and inside the pages of its annual swimsuit issue. But she's just the latest Olympic skier to stumble out of the gate...
Unfortunately, her first scheduled event, the Feb. 14 super combined, mixes speed-heavy downhill racing, which won't require many twists and turns on a bruised lower leg, and slalom, which will. The injury may not cost her as much in the two races in which she is the heavy...