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Achieve Your Dreams At Any Stage In Your Life
Broadway
April 2009
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Featuring: Dara Torres
288 pages
ISBN: 0767931904
EAN: 9780767931908
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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 with her beloved
father’s long battle with cancer. Dara talks frankly about
diving back in for this comeback; about being an older
athlete in a younger athletes’ game; about competition,
doubt, and belief; about working through pain and
uncertainty; and finally—about seizing the moment and, most
important, never giving up. A truly self-made legend, her story will resonate with women
of all ages—and with anyone daring to entertain a seemingly
impossible dream.
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