Late Nite FDL: I Like To Watch (the Olympics)
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 20th, 2008 4:38 am by HL
Late Nite FDL: I Like To Watch (the Olympics)
Let’s hear it for Dara Torres.
At 41 years of age, she skipped the last Olympics and only decided to start training again after she had a baby — let’s say that again, 2 years ago she HAD A BABY — and not only made the Olympics team, she won an individual silver medal. Sez Dara, “You don’t have to put an age limit on your dreams.”
I’m settling in for another night of east coast sleep deprivation because I just cannot go to bed until I see every last minute of the Olympics. Those bastards at the Washington Post screwed me up by printing the results of the uneven parallel bars yesterday, so I had to go into media block today.
Haven’t any of them heard the words “spoiler alert?”
Anyway, while we wait — with all the hoopla over Michael Phelps and his 8 medals, what was for some of us the story of the Olympics got buried.
Let’s hear it for Dara Torres.
At 41 years of age, she skipped the last Olympics and only decided to start training again after she had a baby — let’s say that again, 2 years ago she HAD A BABY — and not only made the Olympics team, she won an individual silver medal.
The thing that’s most rewarding here is what can be learned about what I’ve done. You don’t have to put an age limit on your dreams. I’m hoping that people out there that may have thought they were too old to do certain things can realize they’re not.
Twelve Olympic medals.
I am so getting that video.
