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Think you have to be a teenager to be a big star in the Olympic Games? Check out these athletes who are proving you can still be a sports star in your 40s, 50s and even 60s!

Forget Rocky. This is the real deal. A comeback story for the ages. And the aged. What Dara Torres accomplished at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Nebraska borders on the unthinkable.

Age is just a number -- and nobody proves that more than Olympic superstar Dara Torres! What's her secret? Take :60 and find out, from the ageless wonder herself.

Athletes of every sport know the importance of warming up before competing, but Bob Cooley knows exactly how to stretch them to success.

Everyone wanted to know when her book was coming out. "What book?" she always answered. Eventually she realized everyone wanted to know the real story behind her amazing Olympic comeback.

Dara Torres gets the most publicity and deservedly so. She's setting American records in a sport dominated by Americans. Young Americans. But she's hardly alone in this Olympic age movement.

An Olympic champion proves age really is just a number, and an American hero remembers a day that not only changed history, it changed his future. Plus, we pay tribute to some under-appreciated instruments.

After witnessing the greatest week in swimming history at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, 3-time Olympic gold medalist and NBC analyst Rowdy Gaines dishes all the behind-the-scenes dirt to Growing Bolder.