LOS ANGELES ” The last time the world looked at Amanda Beard she was winning her first individual Olympic gold medal at the Athens Games. There’s a lot more of the 25-year-old swimmer on view in the ...

So Amanda Beard’s memoir — In The Water They Can’t See You Cry — dropped this week and it was jarring in its honesty, detailing how ugly and fat the Olympic swimmer believed herself to be and how ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When Amanda Beard climbed the podium at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, clutching her teddy bear as she collected her first gold medal, no one could see the torment that was starting ...