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41-Year-Old Dara Torres Would Prefer That Her Olympic Teammates Not Call Her Mom

Posted Jul 06, 2008 2:01PM By Michael David Smith (RSS feed)

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After winning the 100-meter freestyle at the U.S. Olympic trials, 41-year-old American swimmer Dara Torres joked that she was too old to read the numbers on the scoreboard that showed her winning time. She wasn't done there:

When told that Michael Phelps had referred to her as "my mom," Torres said:

"I like to refer to it as a big sister to my teammates, although I am as old as some of their parents. I feel like I'm on their level on the one hand. On the other hand I have a lot of experience and I'm not on their level. I take it as a compliment that he refers to me as sort of the mom there, but I don't know if the kids actually think that. Maybe aunt."

As long as Torres is calling her Olympic teammates "the kids," I think it's safe to say that the "mom" comments aren't going away.

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