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Cheating is so 1999

By Shaun Assael
ESPN The Magazine

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

This article appears in the October 19th Body Issue of ESPN The Magazine. The question that brought me to the Buck Institute, outside San Francisco, last fall seemed simple enough; Why do some athletes seem to age more slowly than others? Swimmer Dara Torres had just completed her fifth Olympics, at age 41. Brett Favre was coming out of retirement at 38 to play for the Jets. Driving up the winding road, past parking gates and security checkpoints, I listened to sports talk-radio chatter abou ...

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