They gave their all for their countries. They bared all for us. Let the Games begin!
™ihe Olympic motto is "Faster, higher,
¦ I | stronger." We'd petition for a fourth
¦ "j adjective: hotter. Today's sporty ladies are raising the bar and looking good doing it. Such is the case with high jumper a playboy cover girl prior to the 2004 Games. In Athens she was denied a medal in dramatic fashion: With the clock -^ ticking on her final jump Amy
had to wait for some relay racers to get out of her way; she failed to clear six feet eight and one quarter inches and finished in fourth place. In February she sent us a note of thanks: Playboy publicity, she says, helped the team secure training facilities and a coach. "My chances are the best they can possibly be," she wrote, "and Playboy has a part in that."
One of the all-time great figure skaters, two-time gold medalist =5ffi^E Proved herself the sexiest, bar none, with her December 1998 cover pictorial. Swimmer ^^^also a two-time gold medalist, graced
our July 2007 cover. Considered a long shot for Beijing at the age of 26, Amanda raised eyebrows with a third-place finish at the Southern California Grand Prix of Swimming in January. She makes our team—wet or dry.
