Torres sets American record in 50 free semifinals

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"OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Dara Torres has set an American record in the 50-meter freestyle at the U.S. Olympic trials, winning her semifinal heat in 24.38 seconds. The 41-year-old beat the mark set in the previous heat Saturday night by Jessica Hardy, who touched first in 24.48. That knocked off the mark set in the morning preliminaries by Lara Jackson, who went 24.50. Torres already is assured of being the oldest American ever to swim at the Olympics. She won the 100 free Friday night to complete her improbable comeback for a spot on her fifth Olympic team."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5itR6E_anjnFP68Q_8nPeMRyHwqNAD91O1MHO1

7/6/2008 12:47:17 AM

i'm glad she made it.

but i am unmoved by the pictures.

7/6/2008 12:48:01 AM

damn

7/6/2008 12:48:06 AM

i'm pretty unmoved by the pics as well...but congrats to her

[Edited on July 6, 2008 at 12:48 AM. Reason : first one is ok]

7/6/2008 12:48:42 AM

^^^ She's not carrying the right package, I'll guess?

BTW, "made it"? Torres didn't just make it, she set a new American record in the 50-meter freestyle at the U.S. Olympic trials against swimmers half her age--not too shabby, I'd say.

[Edited on July 6, 2008 at 12:54 AM. Reason : .]

7/6/2008 12:48:58 AM

nice parody

7/6/2008 12:48:59 AM

^ I do what I can.

7/6/2008 12:51:35 AM

#2 - short loop lighting
#3 - butterfly

7/6/2008 12:52:15 AM

damn, that new suit's breaking records left and right.

7/6/2008 12:57:16 AM

she looks best in that very first pic

7/6/2008 12:59:13 AM

^^ Probably--but cut her some slack.

^ Do you think you'll look that good at 41--after having had kids?

[Edited on July 6, 2008 at 1:05 AM. Reason : .]

7/6/2008 1:00:11 AM

i am impressed.

7/6/2008 2:37:57 AM

i wonder why mermaid's don't enter

7/6/2008 3:14:55 AM

MILF

7/6/2008 3:19:34 AM

^^^^i don't know what the hell that means. i wasn't saying she was ugly or anything...besides that i never said i look that good now, at 24

[Edited on July 6, 2008 at 3:21 AM. Reason : 4]

7/6/2008 3:21:41 AM

I agree, the maxim pictures aren't really that good, although the 2nd one is the better of the two.

7/6/2008 3:32:21 AM

at this point id say that id have to hit it

7/6/2008 6:33:49 AM

41 used to look good to me.

Then I realized, why not settle down with a dude who'll be alive when I hit 60?

Makes more sense to me.

7/6/2008 10:18:35 AM

I've done 41...twice. Not quite olympic swimmers, but close enough.

And there was an article on espn.com where a guy was basically betting his life that this chick is on some performance enhancing drugs. Its pretty remarkable considering swimming is absolutely dominated by youngins these days. The prime is basically 17-23 and she's over twice these kids' age.

7/6/2008 10:21:58 AM

watched her swim to make the team theother night. I was blown away...
Way to be a tradition breaker

7/6/2008 12:59:14 PM

MILF

7/6/2008 1:09:00 PM

GILF?

7/6/2008 1:14:37 PM

SILF

7/6/2008 1:21:58 PM

OCTOGENARIANS I'D LIKE TO FUCK

7/6/2008 1:23:35 PM

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"And there was an article on espn.com where a guy was basically betting his life that this chick is on some performance enhancing drugs. Its pretty remarkable considering swimming is absolutely dominated by youngins these days. The prime is basically 17-23 and she's over twice these kids' age."

i know i was thinking this too. i seriously hope she isn't because its a great story. BUT if you've seen her team of like 900 trainers that could have something to do with it, too. hopefully its just her staff of like literally 30 people that massage and stretch her every muscle that helps her, not drugs. that would just be sad.

7/6/2008 2:30:12 PM

It disappoints me that her nipples aren't visible in those pictures.

7/6/2008 5:10:39 PM

BUTT

7/9/2008 9:18:22 PM

Doctor dives in to repair swimmer Torres' shoulder

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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A nagging injury almost kept 41-year-old Dara Torres from competing in her fifth Olympics in Beijing, China. Instead she swam through the pain to capture three silver medals. On Wednesday, she undergoes arthroscopic surgery in Florida to repair damage to her right shoulder. Dr. Joseph Chalal of Performance Orthopedics of the Palm Beaches will perform a distal clavicle resection, or shaving the outer end of the collarbone to smooth it down. Chalal has been treating Torres since just after the Sydney Olympics in 2000. 'Dara had surgery in November 2007 to remove bone spurs and repair a partial tear in her rotator cuff,' Chalal told CNN before Torres' surgery. 'She was doing quite well, but over time she developed this degenerative arthritis problem in the AC joint.' The AC, or acromioclavicular joint, at the top of the shoulder, joins the collarbone to the shoulder. Chalal said that at the start of this year, Torres, who maintained a grueling training schedule in the run-up to the Olympics, received cortisone injections and started taking anti-inflammatories. 'We obviously couldn't do surgery then,' Chalal said, because it was too close to the competition. Torres, the first Olympic swimmer to compete in five games and the first woman swimmer to compete after the age of 40, told CNN that while in Beijing she began having intense shoulder pain, so severe that she thought she might not be able to compete. She called Chalal, who suggested several options. But the anti-inflammatories didn't work. Neither did Torres want to receive a shot of cortisone nor have her shoulder anesthetized. Instead, Torres just swam. Her strategy paid off: In Beijing, she earned three silver medals and broke her own American record, set when she was just 15. She has a total of 12 Olympic medals spanning 24 years over three decades: 1984 (when she was 17), 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008. But once home from the Olympics, it was time to face the music or, in this case, the surgeon. 'We basically remove the area of arthritis and create a space so she is no longer pinched off by the spurs,' said Chalal, describing Wednesday's surgery, known to surgeons as a Mumford procedure. 'There's immediate relief after the surgery and recovery is quite quick.' The Florida mother of a toddler faces four to six weeks of physical therapy. But Torres and her surgeon said she'll be back in the pool in 10 days. Chalal said that Torres can get back to training at that time. 'The goal would be by six weeks to be back to full activity,' he said. 'This is a great way of relieving her discomfort and allowing her to resume the activity she'd like to in a pain-free way.'"

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/08/27/torres.surgery/?iref=hpmostpop

Damn impressive.

8/28/2008 6:26:34 AM