Dara Torres is 41, a mother, and is off to an unprecedented fifth Olympics as a swimmer. It is a feat that impresses everybody — fans, the media and her fellow competitors. But it doesn’t impress the swimming pool.
“The water doesn’t know what age you are when you jump in,” the oldest woman ever to make the U.S. Olympic Swim Team told TODAY’s Matt Lauer Monday. “So why not?”
This woman inspires me. I very seldom watch the olympics, but I will be cheering hard for her!