During the Beijing Olympics, 41-year-old Dara Torres, a University of Florida alumna, captured three silver medals in swimming, bringing her career total to twelve. While the feat in itself is impressive, the five-time Olympian accomplished this daunting task while enduring severe pain from her right shoulder.

That’s right -- since the beginni...

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Olympic events keep coming down to one one-hundredth of a second. One one-hundredth of a second?
 

That’s faster than you can blink. That’s faster than you can read the word “fast.” And that’s faster than it takes Google to find the answer to how fast one one-hundredth of a second really is.
 

But for these Olympic athletes, that’s all the time ...

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The stage was set for four-time NCAA champion Jessica Hardy to lead the U.S. swimming team at the Beijing Olympics. Now, the dreams of securing Olympic gold have been dashed, thanks to new reports that the UC Berkeley student has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

Last night, Swimming World’s website broke the news that both of H...

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