Olympic swimming legend Dara Torres said today that she will train for the 2012 Olympics. If she makes the U.S. squad, she will compete in her sixth Olympics. In the 2008 Olympics she became the oldest swimmer to medal, taking home two silvers. The 43-year-old Parkland mom announced her decision on Live with Regis and [...]

    South Florida’s Dara Torres, a swimming legend who at the age of 41 won silver medals in the 2008 Olympics, has become celebrity spokesperson for a local muscle recovery product. Torres is now promoting Gold Medal Aminos, produced by Sunrise-based Fitness Nutrition. According to a statement from the company, Torres calls the amino [...]

  “Aging athletes don’t have the agility they had in their youth,” CNN.com reported on July 16. “Minor injuries accumulate and become major ones. And by the time they hit their mid-30s and 40s, they’re considered geriatric — that’s the conventional wisdom. “But recently, middle-aged athletes have defied the tolls of aging, returning to competition and [...]