I love it when something like this happens....it makes us 40 something's feel like we're just as good as we think we are....because we ARE!!!! This news article that you're fixing to read from the AP writer Paul Newberry reports the stats.....what it doesn't report is what the typical 40 + woman is thinking......."YOU GO GIRL!!!" We, as mothers, workers, wives and taxi services work hard every day and I know that every man under the sun gets really tired of hearing that....however, when you see one of your "sisters" succeed as Dara has and still juggled all that other "fun, loving stuff"(toung in cheek, there...), it really makes us all proud that we're doing what we're doing as women; Because, in reality, how many men can actually say they do all that on a daily basis? Don't get me wrong; I know they're out there! I commend them....I admire them.......but it's "those ones" that really get under the skin when they freak because they have to "babysit their own kids for a night while their wonderful wives want to go out for a pedicure or movie"???? that really make me scratch my head........ALL COUGARS RAISE YOUR 'TINI GLASS TO DARA!!!!! SHE DESERVES A GOOD COSMO!!!!! I'm embracing my 40's and can only look forward to my 50's.......I think I'm gonna start taking better care of my body.........
TORRES SETS ANOTHER AMERICAN OLYMPIC RECORDBy PAUL NEWBERRY, AP National Writer Jul 7, 1:22 pm EDT
OMAHA, Neb. (AP)—Dara Torres already knew she was going to the Olympics.
That’s not good enough anymore.
The 41-year-old Torres won the 50-meter freestyle Sunday night with another American record, giving her the chance to swim two individual events in Beijing. She’s already done what no one thought possible, returning from her second retirement—and just two years removed from having a child—to reclaim her place as America’s most dominant female sprinter. She’ll be the oldest American ever to swim at the Olympics, but she wants so much more. “I can’t sit here and lie and say, ‘Oh, I’m just glad I’m going,”’ said Torres, who’ll be in her fifth Olympics. “I want a medal.” Having already won the 100 free Friday, Torres got off to the third-slowest start in the most frenetic lap in swimming. But she was in control midway through, touching in 24.25 seconds to eclipse the mark of 24.38 she set the previous night in the semifinals.
Jessica Hardy claimed the second Olympic spot in 24.82, beating Lara Jackson by six-hundredths of a second. Torres has raised the possibility of dropping the 100, worried her still-buff body can’t take the grind of two individual events, especially when she likely will swim two relays, too. “I’m hoping to go somewhat fast because they have girls in the world that are going 24.1 and 23.9, and I have five more weeks to try to drop a couple tenths to hopefully be in competition with those girls,” Torres said. “I’m very happy with my time, but I know I have more work to do.”
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