Biography & Autobiography. Self-Improvement. Sports & Recreations. Nonfiction. HTML: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-oneâ??years after she had retired from competitive swimming and eight years since her last Olympics. When she took three silver medals in Beijingâ??including a heartbreaking .01-second finish behind the gold medalist in the womenâ??s 50-meter freestyleâ??America 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 herâ??when she was months into her first, hard-won pregnancy. With humor and candor, Dara recounts how she returned to serious trainingâ??while nursing her infant daughter and contending with her beloved fatherâ??s long battle with cancer.

Dara talks frankly about diving back in for this comeback; about being an older athlete in a younger athletesâ?? game; about competition, doubt, and belief; about working through pain and uncertainty; and finallyâ??about seizing the moment and, most important, never giving up. A truly self-made legend, her story will resonate with women of all agesâ??and with anyone daring to entertain