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'''Amanda Beard''' (b. California, 1981) won seven gold medals in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 [[Olympics]], and was heavily promoted by the media.  In 2007, she posed nude for Playboy and in 2008 posed nude for an animal rights group.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Aug06/0,4670,OLYChinaProtests,00.html Foreign activists launch pre-Olympics protests], Audra Ang, Associated Press, ''Fox News'', August 06, 2008</ref>

'''Amanda Beard''' (b. California, 1981) won seven gold medals in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 [[Olympics]], and was heavily promoted by the media.  In 2007, she posed nude for Playboy and in 2008 posed nude for an animal rights group.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Aug06/0,4670,OLYChinaProtests,00.html Foreign activists launch pre-Olympics protests], Audra Ang, Associated Press, ''Fox News'', August 06, 2008</ref>

At the 2008 Olympics, despite representing the American women's swim team as co-captain, she failed even to reach the semifinals in her specialty, the 200 meter breaststroke, and placed only 18th in the preliminaries.<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403445,00.html Phelps, Lochte Ready for Olympic Showdown in 200 IM], Associated Press, ''Fox News'', August 13, 2008</ref>

At the 2008 Olympics, despite representing the American women's swim team as co-captain, she failed even to reach the semifinals in her specialty, the 200 meter breaststroke, and placed only 18th in the preliminaries.<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403445,00.html Phelps, Lochte Ready for Olympic Showdown in 200 IM], Associated Press, ''Fox News'', August 13, 2008</ref>

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