Troy Dumais says he's just living in the moment. He won't commit to sticking around for the 2012 London Games. It's hard to see him stopping now, though. Not after he's won two more silver medals at the world championships.
At an age when most of his contemporaries have called it a career, the 29-year-old Dumais keeps pressing on, hurling his body off a diving board in hopes of finally fulfilling that ultimate goal — an Olympic gold.
He's now got four silvers in the world championships, the latest coming Thursday when he was runner-up to Olympic champion He Chong of China in the 3-meter springboard.
That doesn't erase the disappointment of failing to win a medal of any color at the Olympics, where he's 0-for-3. He missed out in Sydney, then Athens, then Beijing. Now, he'll have to hang around until he's 32 if he wants to make another run at gold.
"It doesn't make up for it, but it sets the tone," Dumais said of his performance in Rome, which also included a silver in 3-meter synchro. "You can't make up for something you lost. The only thing you can do is build on it. This is a building process. It's four years if I choose to go four years."
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