Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life
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From legendary Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres comes a motivational, inspirational memoir about staying fit, aging gracefully, and pursuing your dreams.Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans of all ages when she launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at the age of forty-one—years after she had retired from competitive swimming and eight years since her last Olympics. When she took three silver medals in Beijing—including a heartbreaking .01-second finish behind the gold medalist in the women’s 50-meter freestyle—America loved her all the more for her astonishing achievement and her good-natured acceptance of the results.Now, in Age Is Just a Number, Dara reveals how the dream of an Olympic comeback first came to her—when she was months into her first, hard-won pregnancy. With humor and candor, Dara recounts how she returned to serious training—while nursing her infant daughter and contending...
Prologue 11 On Diving Back In 112 On Making a Comeback 273 On Making a Comeback Yet Again 454 On Motherhood and Other Forms of Cross-Training 695 On Losing My Father and Gaining a Coach 896 On Being an Older Athlete 1057 On Competition 1298 On Being a Younger Athlete 1479 On Performing Under Pressure 16310 On Working Through Pain and Uncertainty 18511 On Growing as an Athlete 19912 On Not Giving Up 219Acknowledgments 227
