The prospects of the US Olympic Swimming Team winning a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Medal will depend upon many factors. The factors that come into winning an Olympic Medal are determined by the will and discipline of the athlete and the team as well as the strength of the competition, and the environment. If there is a prospect for the US Olympic Swimming Team to win a medal, it would be Amanda Beard.

 

Amanda Beard is a Model and an Olympic Swimmer. Amanda Beard was born and raised in Newport Beach, California on the 29th of October in the year 1981 and started swimming like most people in California at an early age. She specialized in the Breaststroke while attending Irvine High School in Irvine, California and the University of Arizona.

 

Amanda Beard started her Olympic Career with her participation in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics at the tender age of fourteen where she won silver medals in the hundred meter and two hundred meter breaststroke and a gold medal in the medley relay. She was famous for receiving her medals while holding on to her teddy bear for good luck. She would later win a bronze medal in the 2000 Olympics held in Sydney, Australia secondary to her participation in the two hundred meter breaststroke. Amanda Beard also managed to win an NCAA Division One Championship followed by victories in the US Nationals.

 

Amanda Beard made a big contribution to the United States of America in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens Greece where she won the gold medal for the 200 meter breaststroke and a silver medal in the 200 meter individual medley. She also managed to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympics after finishing second in the 200 meter breaststroke.

 

Amanda Beard has made appearances in television programmes such as «The Best Damn Sports Show Period» as well as in Playboy Magazine [July 2007 Issue] and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition for the year 2006. Amanda Beard is involved in the Defenders of Wildlife Association whose purpose is to prevent cruelty to animals and the abolition of steel jaw leg hold traps. Amanda Beard has served her country and the world in sports and outside sports. It is for this reason that she will be the person to see in the Beijing Olympics 2008 and the possibility of the US Olympic Swimming Team winning a medal would be secondary to her effort. Amanda Beard is an institution for those in the swimming world the end of the Twentieth Century and the beginning of the Twenty First Century.

 

I wish Amanda Beard the best in the Beijing Olympics of 2008 and in the future. I also want to wish Amanda Beard the best in her efforts to help animals in the Defenders of Wildlife Association.