Working Moms Who Are Competing in the Olympics
It can seem like an Olympian feat to balance a 9-to-5 job with family life, but some working moms are actually training for the Beijing games while raising young children. Softball players Jennie Finch, Stacey Nuveman and Lisa Fernandez travel to games with their preschoolers in a motor home. Basketball player Lisa Leslie stepped up to 500 abdominal exercises a day after delivering her daughter by Caesarian section.
That’s nothing next to swimmer Dara Torres, who hit the gym 1 1/2 weeks after delivering daughter Tessa. I remember struggling to walk 5 feet to the bathroom in the first 2 weeks post partum!
I have nothing but admiration for these strong women, as well as tennis player Lindsay Davenport and Valerie Gotay, competing in judo. I especially appreciate their frank talk about struggling with working moms guilt.
Readers, please keep an eye out for other working moms in the summer Olympics.
Dara Torres with daughter Tessa at the August 2007 National Championships. Photo credit: Nick Laham/Getty ImagesMore:
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No question that Dara Torres deserves kudos. She is 41, has competed in the Olympics five times and now has that lovely silver medal for the 4×100m freestyle relay Sunday. Her first gold was won in 1984.