Via USA Swimming

Four-time Olympian and American-record holder Dara Torres will be featured on ABC’s World News Tonight as the “Person of the Week” this evening at 6:30 p.m. EST.

The segment will contain footage of Torres training in Florida, as well as clips of her gold-medal performances in the 50m and 100m freestyle at the 2007 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming Nationals earlier this month in Indianapolis.

At the age of 40, Torres recently reaffirmed her position as one of the top freestylers in the world when she eclipsed her own American record in the 50m freestyle after a seven-year hiatus from the sport. Torres’ time in the 50 free currently ranks fourth in the world, while her time in the 100 free ranks eighth.

If Torres qualifies for her fifth Olympic team in 2008, she will be the oldest swimmer ever to make an Olympic Team.

And for those who don’t see this in time, or won’t be home, I will capture the video and post it right here afterwards, so don’t fret!

Dara provided us with the most touching awards podium experience of the 2007 National Champs in Indy when she brought her daughter, Tessa, up on the podium with her. All of us who were on deck as photographers could hardly snap shots fast enough! Veteran photog Peter Bick even remarked that he had never seen anything like that before. It was great!

Below is one of our shots, but trust me when I say there is a LOT more where that came from! We have a lot of pictures that we don’t use/post on SwimStars.org, so we’re going to open an additional gallery to showcase those. Not sure where that will be though. Could be here! We’ll let you know!

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