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 Unionfor writing a book.
Some book. Titled Below the Surface: The Confessions of an Olympic Champion (William Morrow; $5), it has the splash of a poolside Peyton Place. "Olympic morals," Dawn confides, "are far more loose than any outsider would expect. There's material in the average Olympic Village for a thesis which might earn any budding Kinsey a Ph.D." Dawn should know. She's been going to...
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