After more than a year, Roger Federer returns to the court in Doha. Reason enough to remind us of other great comebacks in world sport.
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Dara Torres:
Swim for the ages
–In her element: Dara Torres, winner of twelve Olympic medals, as a 48-year-old at a swimming course for children in San Antonio, Texas in 2015.
Foto: Ronald Martinez (Getty Images)
She held the world record for the first time when she was 14 and Olympic champion for the first time when she was 17. At 25, Dara Torres retired from swimming, seven years later she was back in Sydney in 2000 and won her third and fourth Olympic gold and three bronze medals.
Her second comeback was even more spectacular: now mother of a son, she qualified for the fifth time and as the oldest female swimmer to date for a US Olympic team. In Beijing in 2008, at the age of 41, she won three more silver medals, two with the relay and one alone, in the 50 m freestyle.
