BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Former Australian swimming great and four-time Olympic gold medalist Dawn Fraser was recovering in a hospital on the Sunshine Coast north of Brisbane after she fell and ...

Dawn Fraser is an Australian Olympic icon. A four-time Olympic swimming gold medallist from 1956, 1960 and 1964. She rose from a scallywag (In Australian parlance: A person, typically a child, who ...

Ian Thorpe, Dawn Fraser and Shane Gould have been joined by two pioneer Olympic gold medallists in Freddie Lane and Sarah “Fanny” Durack as the first inductees into the Swimming Australia Hall Of Fame ...

Odd the way athletes get into trouble. Last week Dawn Fraser, the best woman swimmer in the world, was suspended for ten years by the Australian Swimming Union—for writing a book. Some book. Titled ...

SYDNEY (AP) — Dawn Fraser will return to Japan this week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Tokyo Olympics, where she won fame in the swimming pool and notoriety outside the arena. The ...

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2014, file photo, Australian Olympic swimming great Dawn Fraser smiles during an interview in Tokyo.(AP Photo/Haruka Nuga, File) BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Former Australian ...

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