Now I don’t know what it is about swimmers that just does it for me, but I’ll be damn if Amanda Beard is the perfect example of why you should always date a swimmer when you get the chance. Besides the sleek, nearly perfect body, there’s the zero body fat thing to get all excited over. And yes, there’s a lot to get excited about when it comes to Amanda Beard, who has overcome her profession to turn herself into a major sex symbol with some nice abs to show off to the world. Here are more pictures of her, and more reasons why she’s swimming’s perfect spokesmodel, with emphasis on model. As in, wow, she could be a model if she didn’t swim.

I guess it’s no surprise to anyone that Olympics Gold Medalist swimmer Amanda Beard has a gorgeous bikini body. The woman has, after all, been an athlete all her life, and in fact she’s still training for the upcoming Beijing Olympics if I recall correctly. In any case, here’s Amanda Beard doing a photoshoot for some lucky magazine at the beach. The red bikini is killer, but it’s the body that makes the woman, and what a body!