Dara Torrest Won 50M Freestyle Silver Medal at Beijing Olympics

Dara Torres's 5th Olympic journey was ended in a perfect result on Saturday August 17. The 41-year-old athlete who is the oldest swimmer ever in a USA's Olympic squad won a silver medal in the women's 50m freestyle swimming event. Her 24.07 seconds was just 0.01s off the gold medalist, German Britta Steffen's new Olympic record time of 24.06. The picture above (via Flickr.com) shows Dara Torres posed with her first silver medal at Beijing Olympics after the women's 4x100M freestyle relay during the 2008 Olympics at the National Aquatics Center, also Water Cube in Beijing, China, 10 August 2008.