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AGE IS JUST A NUMBER
By: Dara Torres
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-oneโyears after she had retired from competitive swimming and eight years since her last Olympics. When she took three silver medals in Beijingโincluding a heartbreaking .01-second finish behind the gold medalist in the womenโs 50-meter freestyleโAmerica 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 herโwhen she was months into her first, hard-won pregnancy. With humor and candor, Dara recounts how she returned to serious trainingโwhile nursing her infant daughter and contending with her beloved fatherโs long battle with cancer. Dara talks frankly about diving back in for this comeback; about being an older athlete in a younger athletesโ game; about competition, doubt, and belief; about working through pain and uncertainty; and finallyโabout seizing the moment and, most important, never giving up. A truly self-made legend, her story will resonate with women of all agesโand with anyone daring to entertain a seemingly impossible dream.
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