Women of The Olympics

BEIJING (Reuters) - Olympic swimming champion Amanda Beard, who appeared naked in Playboy magazine in 2007, is to appear naked in an advertising campaign protesting against fashion furs that will be launched at the 2008 Beijing Olympics on Wednesday.

The campaign is on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which said the  U.S. swimmer Amanda Beard would attend the launch, that features photos of her naked, in front of the Water Cube swimming venue, two days before the Games open.

“Seeing animals slaughtered to be worn as fashion is awful to me, so I’m definitely against wearing fur … I’d much rather go naked than ever put a dead animal on my body,” PETA quoted Amanda Beard as saying. Past celebs to bare it all include Alicia Silverstone, Christina Applegate, Christy Turlington, Kim Basinger and Pamela Anderson.

The 26-year-old came to prominence at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics when as a 14-year-old she took her teddy bear with her on to the victory podium.

She won gold in the 200m breaststroke at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and, billed as one of the world’s sexiest athletes, has also appeared in Sports Illustrated and FHM magazines.

Click to see Amanda Beard naked in Playboy

The wailing and gnashing of teeth from millions of Amanda Beard fans in frustration at the imminent release of Amanda Beard in Playboy ended today as the photos were finally made available for viewing on the Internet. That’s not to say her fans will be silent now, but the noises emitted by them will no doubt be more of a “fap fap fap” sound.

The fifteen Amanda Beard Pictures mostly feature her in some way associated with water and are in various settings and in color and black and white. This seems appropriate considering she is an Olympic swimmer, a veteran of three Olympic Games 1996, 2000, 2004 and would you believe currently in training for her fourth in Beijing2008!

The photos are actually quite artistically done although a couple look a tad too airbrushed on the face which is par for the course for Playboy pictures.

Thanks Amanda! Now that I’ve seen all of you, I very much look forward to seeing more of you at the Beijing Olympics Games in 2008 preferably wearing at least a gold medal this time!

Most of the pictures are of course NSFW as they show Amanda Beard nude and also of course are copyright Playboy so I can’t put the high resolution ones up here. Ok I warned you. Click to see the Amanda Beard Playboy Pics [Adults only].