Torres's coach develops blood disorder

JAMES CHRISTIE Globe and Mail Update The U.S. Olympic story that played upon the heartstrings has hit a saddening note. The coach who led 41-year-old swimming mom Dara Torres back into the Olympic parade will be going to the National Institute of Health in Maryland for treatment of a potentially fatal blood disorder instead of joining her at the training camp in Singapore. Michael Lohberg, 58, told the Miami Herald he's suffering from aplastic anemia, describing the condition as "really, really bad." He said doctors have told him that without treatment, his life expectancy could be numbered in days or weeks, not years. "I can't believe this is happening," Torres said in a Los Angeles Times interview. "I feel like this is our journey, Michael's and mine. He had faith in me, to take me on and believe in me," the freestyle... [read full story]