Celebrity Justice
Olympians to Penta Water: H2-0h No You Di'n't

Posted Apr 22nd 2008 7:45PM by TMZ Staff

Olympic swimmers endorsing water. Sounds fishy, but that's exactly what happened. Now four gold medalists, including Amanda Beard, are suing a froufrou bottled water company, claiming their images are being used without permission to hawk the blue stuff.
Amanda Beard
Amanda, along with fellow speedo-heads Jason Lezak, Aaron Peirsol and Kaitlin Sandeno, are suing Penta Water Company for misappropriation of name and likeness. Here's what we know. The four swimmers signed endorsement deals with Penta, but we're told it expired in Fall 2006. Penta continues to use the endorsements, by "posting the names, images and testimonials of the Athletes on their Website."

Kaitlin, who took gold in 2004, said in the original endorsement, "I go to school with it, I wake up with it, and I go to bed with it." Clearly MENSA material.

The suit seeks unspecified damages.

Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Talk Sports

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1. Freaks Whoopde Whoop

Posted at 7:48PM on Apr 22nd 2008 by D

2. Boring story.

Posted at 7:49PM on Apr 22nd 2008 by elle

3. Silly wabbit. Need a carrot?

Posted at 7:54PM on Apr 22nd 2008 by Uh-Oh

4. Is it just me... or is there something weird looking with that girls face? She reminds me of a rabbit on meth!

Posted at 8:01PM on Apr 22nd 2008 by moonflower91024

5. We've Got Your Bottled Water Right Here

Posted at 8:05PM on Apr 22nd 2008 by JM and the Trumpettes

6. moonflower, I think it is her eyes. Either very blue and big or contacts and something else!

Posted at 8:12PM on Apr 22nd 2008 by Dallas

7. I Will Bitch Smack You (with her hair)

Posted at 8:58PM on Apr 22nd 2008 by JM and the Trumpettes

8. bunch of stuck up b!tches

Posted at 9:04PM on Apr 22nd 2008 by Jim

9. "I go to school with it, I wake up with it, and I go to bed with it." She is talking about water? OK.

Posted at 9:18PM on Apr 22nd 2008 by Kelli

10. Ewwww! I hate her Cindy McCain alien eyes!

Posted at 9:59PM on Apr 22nd 2008 by me

11. "And I love it so much I filled my waterbed with five-thousand bottles of Penta."

Posted at 10:11PM on Apr 22nd 2008 by wasted days and wasted nights

12. Yeah, Kaitlin never was the brightest crayon in the box. She was an idiot in school and still is.

Posted at 4:34PM on Apr 23rd 2008 by kk

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