Back in September, we made a post about Amanda securing a new sponsor. This particular sponsor was a beer company, though, and was not identified in the interview we linked.

Carrie — who actually checked out her SI Swimsuit Issue, unlike me — stumbled across the answer to our question. Amanda has teamed with Budweiser, who is a “proud sponsor of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team”. In the Swimsuit issue, Amanda scored her very own 3-page foldout ad. She is photoshopped to all get-out, but looks good, as always. Check it out below:

There is another Budweiser ad, featuring Heather Mitts, Brianna Glenn, and Lovie Jung, on the back cover of the swimsuit issue.

In addition to Amanda’s 1st Budweiser appearance, there is another ad (in poster form), with Amanda on Harley Davidson bike, that is making the rounds on eBay.

The Associated Press, of all mainstream media outlets, should know it’s Hoff, not Joff. Now they, too, fail at life.

No one messes with ‘The Hoff‘ and gets away with it!

If this is what we are to look forward to, from the press, leading up to Trials, then I suggest we all prepare ourselves for maximum eye rollage.

Looks like somebody should have taken a vow of silence for Lent…

“Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff aren’t just showing off their swimming in Missouri. They’re showing off their new Speedo LZR Racer swimsuits. And that means they’re showing off their birthday suits, too.

What Speedo calls “the world’s fastest swimsuit” is kinda, well, see-through.

At least in the right light. Like on a stage in midtown Manhattan last week, where Phelps, Hoff and others modeled the high-tech suits for the media. And on the set of the Today show, where Phelps, Hoff and other elite swimmers also appeared.”

Seriously? What does this lady even know about the new suit or even swimming at large? She’s not even a sports writer! I personally like how she mentioned Katie struggling to get in. Hello - it’s been that way forever! And I also like how she relates the new suit to XXX. Yeah, she would like that, huh?

You can read the rest of the article here.

From the fine folks at Speedo

On the first day of finals at the Missouri Grand Prix, with a blistering time of 2:06.39 in the women’s 200m back, Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe set the first World Record in the world’s fastest suit - the Speedo LZR RACER.

Less than a week after the suit’s debut, Coventry, wearing the suit for the first time, took down Krisztina Egerszegi’s 200m back global standard which had stood since 1991.

Just minutes after the new World Record, Katie Hoff went after the oldest American Record on the books, Janet Evans’ 1988 400m free.

In her LZR RACER Recordbreaker Bodyskin, Hoff went 4:02.20, shattering Evans’ record by 1.6 seconds and just missing Frenchwoman Laure Manadou’s World Record of 4:02.13.

Unrested, Hoff’s American Record came less than an hour after she won the women’s 100m free in a lifetime best time of 54.28.

Wearing the LZR RACER Legskin, Michael Phelps won the men’s 200m fly in 1:53.51, going four-tenths faster than his time in this event in Missouri last year. The time is Phelps’ second-fastest ever, only behind his World Record-setting swim at the 2007 FINA World Championships.

Now that’s some fast swimming!

Slow news time around here? Quite possibly. But we just wanted to take a second to point out that US swimmers are well represented on the Pop Crunch “Hottest Women of Sports” list. The staff of the celebrity tabloid & blog gives their take of the hottest 50 female athletes in the world, and 4 of them swim/swam for the USA.

Here they are:

37. Dara Torres
35. Natalie Coughlin
9. Amanda Beard
4. Haley Cope Clark (retired)

See the full list here.

Team Speedo (with some notables missing) on the Today Show:

Pretty much all you need to know. If you miss it, you know you can count on us to provide a video right here. That’s how we roll. Sharing the wealth.

If you don’t want to wait to read about the new Speedo LZR RACER®, check out this release from Down Under.