"I know Michael was saying that he wants to combine his retirement party with my 30th in Vegas," she said. I'm so busy with my dogs and my chickens I'm sure kids are probably a lot harder than that."Ĭoughlin's 30th birthday lines up with another milestone celebration, as teammate Michael Phelps will be retiring. "I really have no idea what I'm gonna do - if I'm gonna swim after London or not…I'll definitely take some time off." She said that while she would love to have kids at some point, "I haven't even thought about it. I think that helps." She must be doing something right, as she took home the gold in backstroke in both Athens and Beijing.Ĭoughlin has been busy: After Beijing, she took nearly two years off, spending the time on "Dancing with the Stars," marrying longtime boyfriend Ethan Hall and posing for Sports Illustrated wearing only body paint.Ĭoughlin lives on an organic farm in Berkeley with her husband, their chickens, dogs, and plenty of homegrown produce.Īnd though the swimming star isn't quite ready to retire, London may be the last time she competes in the Olympics. "So it's not the most attractive thing ever," she told Morales. Part of her training is perfecting technique: To avoid getting water up her nose during the backstroke, for instance, she uses her upper lip to plug her nose. I train differently just because I need to focus on recovery more…I have way more power than I ever did, you know, eight years ago." H2O Audio, the leading watersports music company, has teamed with iTrain, (the leading provider of digital content fitness programs) and Olympic Gold Medalist, World Champion and World Record. The training is only different because she's older, she said, "and wiser, much wiser. In Beijing, she became the first American female to win six medals in a single Olympics Games.Ī relay win in London would bring her number of medals up to a dozen - tying her with swimmers Jenny Thompson and Dara Torres as the most decorated American female Olympian.Ĭoughlin is training hard for her third Olympics, working out six hours a day, six days a week at the University of California Berkeley campus near her home. With complete access to her family, friends, coaches, teammates, and adversaries, Silver details how she made the crucial choice to train with University of.
She quickly followed onto the stage beginning at 4 years old. She began her love of acting by watching her older sister perform in local theater. She is the daughter of a retired Marine Infantry Officer and an Elementary School Teacher. "I'll embrace my role as a leader and the relay is the first day and in that relay I will do my best and then after that I will help everyone else as much as they need and want it," said the team veteran, who won the gold twice in Athens. Natalie Alyssa Coughlin is a young actress from Southern California. Coughlin, 29, will compete in the 4x100 freestyle relay, having lost a spot in the 100m backstroke to Missy Franklin, 17, and Rachel Bootsma, 18.Ĭoughlin, who spoke to Natalie Morales on TODAY, is keenly aware of the age difference between her and her closest competitors - and is using it to her advantage.
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