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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 her visit last week to Harvard, Torres sat down with FM to talk about super-fast swimsuits, the trials and triumphs of her career, and Michael Phelps’ nickname for his older teammate...
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...
...meet, the Crimson’s most important regular season contest, Harvard fell to perennial swim powerhouse and Ivy League rival Princeton, 203-150. The Crimson was able to pull out a definitive win over Yale, 242-106, moving its record to 7-2 overall and 6-1 in conference action...
...have a role to step up and do something,” Morawski said. “If we win, it could be just because someone said something inspirational to someone else just before they got in the pool. Even if [a team member] doesn’t even swim in the event, they could help...
...seniors, it’s been a long four seasons,” Clarke said. “It was nice in our last [dual] swim meet at home to be able...