Homecoming For Silver-Medal Mom
It's an Olympic homecoming today for 41-year-old American swimmer Dara Torres. Last week in Beijing, she became the the oldest swimmer ever to win an Olympic medal. Wednesday in Florida, she went back to being a mom. CBS News' Harry Smith reports.
Dara Torres reunited this morning with her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Tessa.
They'd been separated for seven weeks as Torres trained for the Beijing Games, in which she won three silver medals.
"For me, my most important place is home and being with my daughter, and, um, I could not get here soon enough," she said.
Dropping off her daughter for her very first day of pre-school, Torres was cheered by the teachers. And she showed off her medals at her home aquatics center.
And then, it was actually back to training.
Torres tells CBS News that she feels like she has "unfinished business."
She lost out on one gold medal by one one-hundredth of a second,
"It doesn't gnaw at me a little, it gnaws at me a lot!" she said, and hinted she's considering swimming at the 2009 World Championships in Rome.
Torres has already signed a $3 million book deal and has a full slate of speeches, including one next month - to the Florida AARP.