when forty-one-year-old american swimmer dara torres mother of two-year-old,competed in the 2008 beijing olympics,people were surprised for an old athlete and a new mother to compete against younger athletes.why,then did people disapprove when runner funny blankers-koen,a thirty-year-old dutch mother with two young children,competed in the olympics?the year was 1948,and things were very different for women at that time