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Title: Dawn Fraser, 71 year old Olympic Champ fights off attacker
Post by: Johnny Bravo on August 31, 2009, 12:22:24 PM
A four-time gold medalist subdued and help capture a teenage intruder at her home in Australia. It's a pretty impressive story before you consider that the would-be victim won the first of those gold medals in 1956.

Dawn Fraser, who won eight Olympic medals for Australia from 1956 through 1964, was at a home in Australia when a man grabbed her by the front gate. Bad idea.

"This guy came out of the gate and grabbed me and I grabbed him by the ear and I kicked him in the groin.

So he had to let me go. He threatened my life and I got really annoyed about that and just grabbed him by the ear and the hair."

Grabbing an ear and kicking a groin? That sounds like a scene from a Three Stooges movie. It's bad enough to be a burglar. It's bad enough to be a bad burgler. But to be a bad burglar that gets caught after being kicked in the groin by a 71-year old? Ouch, on multiple levels.

Fraser's attitude doesn't seem to have changed from her swimming days. She was always considered cocky (especially when she broke the Australian record in the 100m freestyle and told reporters that she wasn't impressed with her time) and once smacked a teammate with a pillow during an argument at a team meeting.

While Fraser said she was "annoyed" with the intruder, she couldn't be too angry, since she has dabbled in some intruding herself. At the 1964 Tokyo Games, Fraser went on a middle-of-the-night raid to steal a flag from the entrance to the Emperor's palace. She was caught and arrested, but was released soon after and given the flag anyway.
Title: Re: Dawn Fraser, 71 year old Olympic Champ fights off attacker
Post by: red364 on August 31, 2009, 12:29:49 PM
Go Granny!!!
Title: Re: Dawn Fraser, 71 year old Olympic Champ fights off attacker
Post by: tt11758 on August 31, 2009, 01:17:03 PM
I could see Mrs. T doing that when she's 71 in another..............however many years it is until she turns 71.



I darn near screwed (in the interest of a more wholesome forum) fornicated myself there, didn't I?  ;D
Title: Re: Dawn Fraser, 71 year old Olympic Champ fights off attacker
Post by: shooter32 on August 31, 2009, 01:24:17 PM
Quote from: tt11758 on August 31, 2009, 01:17:03 PM
I could see Mrs. T doing that when she's 71 in another..............however many years it is until she turns 71.



I darn near screwed (in the interest of a more wholesome forum) fornicated myself there, didn't I?  ;D


LOL.....yes you did ;)
Title: Re: Dawn Fraser, 71 year old Olympic Champ fights off attacker
Post by: Johnny Bravo on August 31, 2009, 02:50:29 PM
Close one tt!  (http://i895.photobucket.com/albums/ac157/johnnybravo7/smileys/thnono.gif)
Title: Re: Dawn Fraser, 71 year old Olympic Champ fights off attacker
Post by: Kid Shelleen on August 31, 2009, 03:29:52 PM
Way to go Mrs. Fraser.

It's always great when the good guys win.