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"If anyone knows public scrutiny, it's me. When I posed for Playboy, so many officials looked down on me. Michael knows he isn't a bad person. He made a mistake. People need to get over it. I want to cheer him on in London."
Amanda Beard, US's four-time Olympian swimmer, defended Michael Phelps for his recent smoking marijuana pipe glass photo scandal by comparing her own ordeal that resulted from posing for Playboy magazine in 2007.