Amanda Beard short of Olympic bid

Amanda Beard placed fifth in the women's 200 meter breastroke final at Omaha. The London Olympic Games will be the first games she has missed since she burst onto the scene in 1996 at the Atlanta games and won silver in both breastroke events.
Her best games were Athens in 2004 when she won gold in the 200 breast and silver in the 200 IM, making her one of the best overall swimmers in the world.
Sadly, she seems to be most famous for posing nude in Playboy and foe promoting a PETA. poster before the Beijing games of 2008.
Beard is thirty now and Omaha may have been her swan song. My have the years gone by.