Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan shekaru bakwai daga gasar tsere, Torres ya fara horar da shi don dawowa gasar Olympics a 1999 a karkashin jagorancin kocin Richard Quick. Ta lashe lambobin yabo biyar a wasannin Olympics na 2000 a Sydney, amma ta ajiye mafi kyawunta don manyan abubuwan da suka faru na 'yan mata na Olympics na Amurka. Ta yi iyo a mataki na biyu don tawagar mata ta Amurka da ta yi nasara a wasan karshe na tseren tseren mita 4 × 100 wanda ya hada da Amy Van Dyken, Courtney Shealy, da Jenny Thompson. Torres ya lashe lambar zinare ta biyu don kafa ƙungiyar Amurka mai nasara a cikin tseren mita 4 × 100, tare da abokan wasan BJ Bedford, Megan Quann, da Jenny Thompson a wasan karshe. Kowane mutum, Torres kuma ya sami lambar tagulla <unk> lambar yabo ta farko ta Olympics a cikin abubuwan da suka faru na mutum <unk> a kowane nau'in mita 50
, mita 100 butterfly da kuma mita 100 freestyle, daura da tawagar aboki da kuma kishiya Jenny Thompson ga na uku wuri a karshe taron. A shekara 33, Torres ta zama mace mafi tsufa da ta lashe lambar yabo ta Olympics a wasan iyo. Ita ce mafi tsufa memba na tawagar 'yan wasan Olympics ta Amurka, amma ta lashe lambobin yabo (biyar) fiye da kowane memba na tawagar Amurka.