«Great Meeting You, Dara!!»
Very focused, very driven, very compulsive, very successful. This is Dara Torres. But she is also from a very wealthy family; and is blessed with unlimited support in every way. Her age may be "just a number", but without all the good fortune, I am not sure anyone at any age, could accomplish what she did, especially with a small child. The main message here is YOU CAN....but you have to have an unbeievable support system first.
[Monday, August 02, 2010]
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«Amazing Story of older athlete»
I am a masters swimmer, so I found it inspiring enough about her swimming so successfully at 41 years old. Her story is much more, showing the hard work, determination, and persistence in the face of adversity. Well-written, although the chronology does skip around a bit, but the story is so compelling. It is about setting goals, practice, hard work, keeping a positive attitude, all the keys my coach has been reminding me about.
[Sunday, July 25, 2010]
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«Disappointing»
First off, the title is misleading - this is not a motivational or a how-to book. It's a memoir. I knew this beforehand so it wasn't an issue but others could be confused. Dara Torres won three silver medals at the 2008 Olympics - an incredible achievement, especially since she was 41 at the time. I was curious about her story and hoping to be inspired at the same time. Unfortunately, I was distracted by the poor writing (even with the help of a co-writer) and the extremely disorganized chapters. There were also strange gaps. For example, she goes into detail about her first marriage and subsequent divorce but later in the book only mentions in passing that she got married and divorced to someone else in the meantime. (I'm not saying that she's obliged to provide personal info but the inconsistency was odd). I wanted to know how, after not swimming for 7 years (literally not a single lap) she launched straight into training with her team. Wouldn't she be extremely out of practice? This is never addressed. I ended up feeling very frustrated.This could have been so much more.
[Tuesday, June 29, 2010]
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