Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life

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-oneyears after she had retired from competitive swimming and eight years since her last Olympics. When she took three silver medals in Beijingincluding a heartbreaking .01-second finish behind the gold medalist in the womens 50-meter freestyleAmerica 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 herwhen she was months into her first, hard-won pregnancy. With humor and candor, Dara recounts how she returned to serious trainingwhile nursing her infant daughter and contending with her beloved fathers 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 finallyabout seizing the moment and, most important, never giving up. A truly self-made legend, her story will resonate with women of all agesand with anyone daring to entertain a seemingly impossible dream.