Amanda Beard
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"Amanda Ray Beard" is an American swimming (sport)/swimmer and a seven-time Olympic Games/Olympic medalist (two gold, four silver, one bronze). She is a former List of world records in swimming/world record holder in the 200-meter breaststroke (long course).

Beard's success has earned her the Swimming World Swimmers of the Year#American Swimmer of the Year/American Swimmer of the Year Award twice. She has won a total of twenty-one medals in major international competition, five gold, thirteen silver, and three bronze spanning the Olympics, the FINA World Aquatics Championships/World Championships, the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships/Pan Pacific Championships, and the Summer Universiade.

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What are you doing now? ... Just going to school and swimming?

Let's go to the back.

It feels absolutely amazing.

I worked there for a year, ... I'd taken the year off from school and was doing double-session workouts. I needed something to do with myself between practices, so I worked there four hours a day.

[What is Amanda Beard doing in school, anyway? At her bewildering, Van Wildering academic pace, you might think that her favored stroke is the crawl. Besides, she already has fame, fortune and an FHM cover.] I'm going to graduate, ... no matter how long it takes.

Strong biceps and triceps help me slice through the water's resistance and swim more efficiently.

I get scared when I approach teachers and tell them that I'll probably be able to attend only half the classes, ... I'm scared that they're going to drop me. In the fall of 2002 I signed up for five classes and had to drop three of them.

Last week I was one minute late, ... and when I got to class, the professor had locked the door. She was nice, though. She let me in.