Amanda stroking our BEARD by posing nude for Playboy

For all ya'll who don't know who the heck is Amanda Beard, she is the former Olympic gold medalist from the Athens Games.

Yep, the 25-year-old swimmer, after winning her first individual gold medal in Athens, is literally showing off everything she has in the July issue of Playboy magazine. I guess you can say after we saw her show off her best strokes on water, we now have the opportunity to ''stroke'' it in front of Amanda Beard's perfect body.

The July edition of Playboy magazine features Amanda Beard, TOPLESS on the cover billed as ''the world's sexiest athlete nude.'' (And I thought the hot and sexy Maria Sharapova has that distinction...)

Amanda Beard takes off her clothes in EIGHT PHOTOS that will most definitely change her status from being a role model to young girls to... um... role model to young girls who like to pose nude for Playboy someday.

''This is a once in a lifetime opportunity and I really felt excited and motivated to do it,'' Amanda Beard said while sipping coffee in the sunny backyard of her Venice home. ''I'm kind of used to people not necessarily agreeing with everything that I do and that's totally fine. This doesn't change my personality or who I am. It's just a business decision, a career decision.''

And we definitely hope more hot and sexy female athletes will make the same business decision as the lovely Amanda Beard did.

Amanda Beard is aiming to qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. It may be months before Beard competes in meets and gauge the reaction of her fellow swimmers to her Playboy magazine spread.

''It would only feel awkward if they make comments to me about it,'' Amanda Beard said. ''We'll see how that one goes.''

Well, for one, a lot of guys will definitely want to get inside her pants, that's for sure.

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Amanda Beard Playboy Magazine Cover