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  • Dara Torres holds her daughter Tessa, 2, and waves to the crowd wearing her medal for the women’s 100-meter freestyle
  • Dara Torres celebrates setting a US record time of 24.38 in the women’s 50-meter freestyle semifinal at the US Olympic swimming trials

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    Dara Torres and Michael Phelps react to Billy’s question about Phelps’ Fu Manchu mustache

  • Access Hollywood

    Dara Torres arrives at the Beijing airport

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    Dara Torres at a training session at the Olympic Aquatic Center at the Beijing 2008 Olympics, August 4, 2008

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    Dara Torres holds her daughter Tessa, 2, and waves to the crowd wearing her medal for the women’s 100-meter freestyle

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    Dara Torres celebrates setting a US record time of 24.38 in the women’s 50-meter freestyle semifinal at the US Olympic swimming trials

 

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August 18, 2008

Dara Torres On Her Olympic Silver Lining

“Is there a silver lining to the silver medal?” Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson asked Dara Torres, following the two silver medals she won at her finals on Sunday.

“That’s a good analogy,” Dara replied. “The silver lining is that there’s nothing that I could have changed. My coach said I swam the perfect race and I broke the American record. I did my best time by a couple tenths of a second, which is a lot in a 50, so I have to be happy with a silver medal.”

Mother… Olympian… Role model – Dara is all of these things, and more.

More of her post-Olympics experience, inside.

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