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Olympic great Dawn Fraser knees intruder in groin with titanium knee

 

 

SYDNEY — Elderly Olympic swimming great Dawn Fraser fought off an intruder who threatened to kill her by kicking him in the groin with her titanium knee, she has said.

 

The 72-year-old Australian swimming legend said she "lost it" when she confronted two youths who woke her when they entered her daughter's home in Noosaville in eastern Queensland state last Friday night.

 

Fraser, who became a global sensation aged 19 when she shattered the world record to win gold in the 100 metres freestyle at the 1956 Olympics, said she snapped when one of the youths threatened her.

 

"Out came this guy who then grabbed me around the throat and said 'I will kill you', and with that I grabbed him around the ear and hair and kneed him in the groin," she told Channel Seven television late Monday.

 

"I was threatened by the way he spoke to me and I'd never been spoken to like what he called me ... I think I lost it. I have got a titanium knee so it must have hurt him," she said.

 

Fraser, who turns 73 later this week, used her reconstructed knee in self-defence while vacationing at her daughter Dawn-Lorraine's house.

 

"(I) came up for a holiday and here I am being threatened with my life and all our security has been taken," she told the television station.

 

Police said they had referred two youths to child protection services over the incident but said they were treating the investigation as a trespass incident, not a burglary, because no homes were broken into.

 

Several youths entered properties in the Noosaville area on Friday night but no complaints of assault or theft have been received, they said.

 

"A couple of the men were disturbed while this was in process," a police spokeswoman said.

 

Fraser won eight Olympic medals, including four golds, and six Commonwealth Games gold medals during a career that spanned three Olympics. She retired in 1964.

[MHKflyer52]

Good for her.....we need more folks in this world to stand up for themselves and take action and not be cowards when it comes to self preservation....just my belief but that is me.....sounds that those kids got off easy......