When your job description consists of wearing skintight swimsuits and being wet all the time, you get to used to having people staring at you. So it isn't going too far off the deep end for a gold medal-winning swimmer like Amanda Beard to lose the one-piece and bare it all for Playboy. The current Olympic champion in the breaststroke (tee-hee) is the covergirl for the Rabbit's July issue and the star of a much-anticipated pictorial inside. As is always the case when a female athlete takes it off for the cameras, there's been much handwringing about role models and girl power and the cheapening of her athletic accomplishments, but the real scandal is how she can pose for over a dozen nude photos, yet there isn't one clear cut, full-frontal, color shot of her two girls. You get nearly the same amount of skin every time she jumps in the pool (or in FHM) and we were expecting a little more for her troubles. Oh well, there's always 2008.

· Amanda Beard - Adult Swim (hoochiemumma2.blogcindario.com)
· Beard's nude photo spread may stir up waves (espn.go.com)

Previously: World's Sexiest Athlete?, Wild World Of Nude Sports Mistresses, Meet Nicole Begg: Naked Speed Skater Would Like Your Attention, Please, Hot Olympians 2006, More Hot Olympic Babes, American Women in Athens

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