Article: age-defying.(Sports)

The Associated Press

BEIJING

Dara Torres was denied an improbable gold medal Sunday morning by one-hundredth of a second - the same margin that kept Michael Phelps on course to break Mark Spitz's record.

The 41-year-old Torres, a five-time Olympian and the oldest American swimmer ever, settled for silver when Germany's Britta Steffen nipped her at the wall in the 50-meter freestyle to complete a sweep of the women's sprint events.

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