She celebrates her birthday on April 15 every year and her birth sign is Aries. Torres stands at an estimated height of 5 ft 11 in 1. She as well weighs lb 68 kg. At 14, she won the national open championship in the yard freestyle by defeating the then-current champion, Jill Sterkel, a college junior. She attended the Westlake School for Girls now Harvard-Westlake School and competed for the Westlake swim team under coach Darlene Bible from the seventh grade through her sophomore year in high school.
She was also a member of the Westlake basketball, gymnastics, and volleyball teams. During her —84 high school junior year, she left home to swim for the Mission Viejo Nadadores in Mission Viejo, California, while training for her first Olympics under coach Mark Schubert.
After the Olympics, Torres returned to the Westlake School to graduate in Dara is the fifth child of Edward Torres and Marylu Kauder. Her father is a real estate developer, and casino owner while her mum is a former American Model. Tara has one sister and four brothers. Dara was previously married to Jeff Gowen, a sports producer in Since her break-up with Shasha, American former competitive swimmer Dara began dating David Hoffman, a reproductive endocrinologist after her break-up with Shasha, and they became the parents of Tessa Grace Torres-Hoffman, born in After the birth of their daughter, Hoffman, a master swimmer, persuaded her to begin training again.
Dara has an estimated net worth of 3 million dollars. This includes her assets, money, and income. Her primary source of income is her career as a swimmer and reporter. Through her various sources of income, Dara has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle. Dara swam for the Florida Gators swimming and diving team of the University of Florida as she was studying there. Rumors have swirled for years. Anti-Doping Agency program that calls for more frequent testing and blood analysis has done little to silence her skeptics.
Torres, who has passed numerous drug tests, said she is also willing for the agency to release her tests results and continue to test her after retirement to see if there is a change in blood and hormonal levels. While Torres said she is being tested for human growth hormone, Tygart would not confirm that, saying only that a blood-based test for HGH has been in development.
But unfortunately once you get past that point they start questioning other things. Federal investigations have revealed that dozens of athletes repeatedly passed drug tests despite using banned substances. The testers can only find what they are looking for, and there will always be people in the world who for whatever reason — money, fame — will always find ways to cheat and be ahead of everyone else.
This is not the first time anyone has questioned whether Torres has used banned performance-enhancing drugs. First emerging on the international scene prior to the U. Olympic Trials, Torres developed a reputation as a gifted rich kid and indifferent trainer who underachieved at the Olympic Games. Torres retired after the Games, started a career in television and posed for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. She raised even more eyebrows by coming out of retirement in at age 32, training under Stanford coach Richard Quick.
Within five months, she was within three-tenths of a second of the meter freestyle world record. Torres credited her success to an obsessive workout schedule and a diet of nutritional supplements designed by Dr.
Glen Luepnitz, a nutritionist at a Texas oncology clinic. There was so much acrimony between the pair that Quick had to schedule separate practice sessions for them. They could not avoid each other on the Sydney Olympic medal podium after tying for the freestyle bronze medal, neither swimmer making an effort to hide her disdain for the other during the medal ceremony. Torres said she had the same nervous anticipation before her last race as she did at her first U.
She had no illusions about being a serious medal contender in London, but she wanted to end her career with one more trip to the Olympics. The goal was to try to make it. I didn't quite do it, but I'm really happy with how I did. I was able to hang in there. Hardy said it was an honor to compete against Torres, who retired twice but came back to win five medals at the Sydney Games, then three more silvers in Beijing.
This time, she's retiring for good. Hardy failed to qualify for the Olympics in her best event, the breaststroke, but she bounced back to win the and 50 freestyle, capping her comeback from a failed doping test that kept her off the team four years ago. An arbitration panel ruled that Hardy was the victim of a tainted supplement.
Joyce didn't even get out of the preliminaries of the free, but she came back in the 50 free to make her third Olympic team. It was my one chance to lay it all the line for this I can't believe I did it. Katie Hoff, who won three medals in Beijing, failed to qualify. Another disappointment was time medalist Natalie Coughlin, who didn't make any of her individual events and will have to settle for a relay spot. Torres retires with 12 medals, tied with Jenny Thompson as the most decorated U.
Before she stepped on the blocks, Torres remembered her late coach, Michael Lohberg, who died in from a rare blood disorder that was diagnosed just before she swam in Beijing. In July of , he had said to me, 'Let's go for this.
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