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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 38710 Gender:	So Dawn Fraser fell down etc Dec 11^th, 2024 at 6:09pm I wish her well but I'll bet the media would have preferred she perished. Scum they be. All they give a stuff about is milking the crap out of anything, anybody, anywhere, anytime to maximise their viewing. And 'we' feed on it, abetting them.
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 137545 Gender:	Re: So Dawn Fraser fell down etc Reply #1 - Dec 11^th, 2024 at 6:38pm I wish I knew what this thread was about
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Aussie Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 38710 Gender:	Re: So Dawn Fraser fell down etc Reply #2 - Dec 11^th, 2024 at 7:10pm greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 11^th, 2024 at 6:38pm: I wish I knew what this thread was about Link.
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 137545 Gender:	Re: So Dawn Fraser fell down etc Reply #3 - Dec 11^th, 2024 at 7:24pm Aussie wrote on Dec 11^th, 2024 at 7:10pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 11^th, 2024 at 6:38pm: I wish I knew what this thread was about Link. Dead link. Went nowhere. What's this thread about, in your own words?
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Reply #4 - Dec 11^th, 2024 at 7:44pm

Aussie wrote on Dec 11^th, 2024 at 7:10pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 11^th, 2024 at 6:38pm:

I wish I knew what this thread was about Undecided

Link.

correct link

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-11/qld-dawn-fraser-daughter-speaks-after-oly...

Olympian Dawn Fraser doing 'so much better' after emergency hip surgery and four broken ribs, family says

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Dnarever Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 58507 Here Gender:	Re: So Dawn Fraser fell down etc Reply #5 - Dec 11^th, 2024 at 8:49pm greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 11^th, 2024 at 6:38pm: I wish I knew what this thread was about I just googled Dawn Fraser.
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Dnarever Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 58507 Here Gender:	Re: So Dawn Fraser fell down etc Reply #6 - Dec 11^th, 2024 at 8:51pm Wonder how many people still know how good she was in the pool. Probably still our best ever and she likely would have won more.
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 137545 Gender:	Re: So Dawn Fraser fell down etc Reply #7 - Dec 12^th, 2024 at 12:09pm Hip replacement at 87? Risky
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Reply #8 - Dec 12^th, 2024 at 12:52pm

Dnarever wrote on Dec 11^th, 2024 at 8:51pm:

Wonder how many people still know how good she was in the pool. Probably still our best ever and she likely would have won more.

She would not even make an Olympic Final these days even though water is still water and the human body is still the human body.

But, really my Thread is about the insincerity of the media and how it milks celebrity or tragedy to sell copy. As I said, I'll bet they are salivating at the prospect of her death so they can go to the next level of bull

sh

it. They don't care about Dawn, or her Family. All the media ever gives a stuff about is the media's interests. "If it bleeds it leads."

I wish we would start not buying into that crap.

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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 48317 Gender:	Re: So Dawn Fraser fell down etc Reply #9 - Dec 12^th, 2024 at 4:19pm Who's dawn Fraser? Must be a tv media thing?
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Reply #10 - Dec 12^th, 2024 at 8:22pm

Jasin wrote on Dec 12^th, 2024 at 4:19pm:

Who's dawn Fraser? Must be a tv media thing?

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Dawn Fraser has been recognised as Australia's greatest female swimmer. Over the course of her career she won eight Olympic medals—four gold and four silver—and set 39 world records.

She is the first of only four swimmers in Olympic history (Hungarian Krisztina Egerszegi and Americans Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky being the three others) to have won individual gold medals for the same event at three successive Olympics

It would have been 4 had she not been suspended

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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 48317 Gender:	Re: So Dawn Fraser fell down etc Reply #11 - Dec 13^th, 2024 at 7:28am Oh. Was she on early roids back then?
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 24988 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: So Dawn Fraser fell down etc Reply #12 - Dec 13^th, 2024 at 1:55pm Jasin wrote on Dec 13^th, 2024 at 7:28am: Oh. Was she on early roids back then? She just knew how to swim efficiently. Swimming is part of Australian culture.
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Reply #13 - Dec 13^th, 2024 at 2:34pm

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 13^th, 2024 at 1:55pm:

Jasin wrote on Dec 13^th, 2024 at 7:28am:

Oh. Was she on early roids back then?

She just knew how to swim efficiently. Swimming is part of Australian culture.

Was.

Attending a demonstration at Bondi Beach on Friday, Governor General Sam Mostyn said she was part of a generation where every child learnt to swim, competed in school swimming carnivals and spent their holidays near the water.”

“There are now millions in Australia who were born elsewhere who have never had that experience,” she said.

A quarter of the 323 people who fatally drowned between July 1, 2023, and June 30, 2024, were born overseas. The National Drowning Report 2024 estimated those born overseas represented 34 per cent of total deaths in recent years.”

The annual drowning report said swimming skills were going backwards to a point at which Australia was no longer a nation of swimmers.”

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Jasin Gold Member Offline Posts: 48317 Gender:	Re: So Dawn Fraser fell down etc Reply #14 - Dec 13^th, 2024 at 5:17pm I reckon she pumped the steroids and other enhancers back then, when it was easy to do. She probably had a pair of small nuts.
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