Here’s How Your Favorite Athlete Looks Like Throughout The Years

Published on 06/02/2020
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Summer Sanders

She represented the United States at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, becoming a hero for her four medal-winning performance. She also won eight national championships. After her swimming career ended, Sanders became a broadcaster, working on several sports-related programs. Sanders became the most decorated US swimmer at the 1992 Olympics, winning four medals: two gold, one silver, and one bronze. The first memory you may have of Summer Sanders might be when she appeared on TV as the host of a Nickelodeon show Figure It Out, which premiered in 1997. Her start, though, was winning four medals swimming at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. The camera liked her a lot and, with her experience as an Olympic champion, she is the perfect sports commentator. Sanders was still competing when she began giving commentary for various sporting events, but she’s since retired from competitive swimming. Sanders became an advocate of skin cancer when she was diagnosed and undergone surgery. She is now enjoying her life with her two kids with her husband, Erik Schlopy, who is an Olympic skier.

Summer Sanders

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Dara Torres

Dara Torres, born in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of eight she entered competitive swimming. Torres was 12 when she set a national age-group swim record. Upon entering her teens at Westlake School in Los Angeles, she received a “Most Likely to Break a Record in the Guinness Book” citation. She has more medals than most Olympians with 12 to her name, four of them gold. That’s more successful than most of us can hope for, and she decided to cut her off because of her injuries. Torres had to undergo surgery for her knees and stopped competitive swimming. In 2012, she pursued modeling as a career, in addition to being a TV correspondent. Torres still swims as a celebrity swimmer for a cancer research-funding charity called Swim Across America. She was considered the oldest swimmer on Olympic history at 41 years old. Commentator TV sports, NBC, ESPN, TNT, Fox News, Fox Sports, and CNN; research assistant, NBC Sports; spokesperson Tae-Bo workout tapes; host, Discovery Channel.

Dara Torres

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