Dara Torres in the NY Times

This article has an amazing photo of Dara Torres swimming which is featured above and a few photos of her doing dry land workouts as well. She is ripped; all 6-foot-and-150-pounds of her. They go into details regarding her routine and it surprised me that she only swims 5 times a week. She also gets blood drawn regularly to valdate she is a clean swimmer.

Snippet: "... She asked [Michael] Lohberg if he would coach her, and he sat her down to have The Talk.

He asked Torres if she had ever used performance-enhancing drugs. “For myself, I needed to have this clear before we started anything,” Lohberg said.

Torres recalled, “I said, ‘Why do you ask that?’ and he said, ‘Because that’s what everybody was talking about on the deck in Sydney.’”

She assured Lohberg that she would never use drugs. After they began working together, he saw no reason to doubt her.

“Technically, she’s brilliant,” Lohberg said.

“And Dara wants to be perfect,” he added. “She’s very conscientious.” [Link]

UPDATE on Dara Torres' participation in the 100 SCM free at the FINA World Cup stop in Germany -- from Lane 9 News: "[Marleen]Velhuis nearly had all she could handle with Germany's Britta Steffen clocking in at 52.17 right behind her to crush her German record (52.82), while the United States' Dara Torres added the 100 free American record to her bag with a third-place time of 52.79. That performance clipped Natalie Coughlin's time of 52.81 set in 2004. Sweden's Josefin Lillhage also went sub-53 with a fourth-place time of 52.84. ..." [Link]