Age Is Just a Number (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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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 andminds 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. Whenshe 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 herastonishing 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-whenshe 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'slong 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; aboutworking 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 anyonedaring to entertain a seemingly impossible dream.