41 year old Dara Torres

[scooterbug44]

Floyd Landis has a weasel face, so I always suspected him! :rofl:

 

[Will B]

Well, now that we are post-BALCO, nobody really gives much credence to the testing anymore. Many if not most of the top athletes who have doped have been simply ahead of the testing. So that is why you will continue to hear the chatter during and possibly beyond the Games, about many athletes. Incredible stories are always going to generate much suspicion. Think Floyd Landis -- that may be the last "amazing story" that the American public will fully buy into for a good long time.

There's an interesting story on MSNBC about her that pretty much lays it out there. For all practical purposes, she has made her life an open book and has said "come and get it." There's some good points in it...

http://www.nbcolympics.com/blogs/blog=alanabrahamsonsblog/postid=148601.html

 

[scooterbug44]

Nice to see an athlete go out of their way to volunteer for all possible (hair, urine, blood, DNA) drug tests and tell them they can keep the samples for as long as they want just in case they discover a new test or substance to test for.

 

[TooFarTampa]

Nice to see an athlete go out of their way to volunteer for all possible (hair, urine, blood, DNA) drug tests and tell them they can keep the samples for as long as they want just in case they discover a new test or substance to test for.

Yes, all that is a good sign. I would like to believe that she is clean. Really I would. But I am kind of cynical about all of it, just as I am cynical that the linked story was posted on nbcolympics.com. Anything on MSNBC, or even GE-owned Newsweek (which I love) should be taken with a grain of salt, simply because NBC has a LOT riding on the Torres story. Big $$$ was invested long before the Internet made covering an Olympics many time zones away inconvenient for the networks. I'm pretty sure it was NBC that persuaded the IOC to switch the swimming finals to the a.m. so they could be aired live in the U.S., a year or two ago.

 

[scooterbug44]

I'm cynical because of the asthma meds she's on, but like the idea of it!

 

[beachmouse]

I'm cynical because of the asthma meds she's on, but like the idea of it!

There have been a couple of studies lately that suggest that there is a strong link involving the long term exposure to chlorine (used to sanitize abouut 99% of swimming pools in the US) with increased likeliehood of developing asthma. It's actually far more common than it seems like it should be to see asthma in competitive swimmers.

 

[NotDeadYet]

I agree with you, and perhaps I was assuming too much, but I figured he has a demanding job, since someone has to pay for all the swimming costs (and I'm sure Dara has sponsorships and is getting bigger breaks now, but I doubt it has always been so).

I think you just put your foot in it, again.

 

[TooFarTampa]

I think you just put your foot in it, again.

In my mouth or in something else? I do both, on a fairly regular basis.

You are right, I did not realize that she is independently wealthy. But I remain somewhat cynical, in general, about the whole thing.

 

[peapod1980]

Not to take anything away from her, but the copyright on the Maxim photo is 2000. That ain't no 41-year-old.

 

[JUL]

My bad, Wikipedia said they were married.

Since she was breastfeeding her daughter 15 minutes before swimming the race that qualified her for the Olympic trials I don't think she's that neglectful of a mom. ;-)

I just wonder how she managed to keep her breasts so "fit" if she breast fed