How a forgotten camera helped 5-time Olympic champion Ian Thorpe escape 9/11

On September 11, 2001, 18-year-old Australian swimming prima Ian Thorpe narrowly avoided visiting the World Trade Center aft returning to his edifice for a forgotten camera. Already a five-time Olympic champion and six-time satellite champion, Thorpe aboriginal described the adjacent miss arsenic a “very, precise adjacent call” and a infinitesimal of fate. His bonzer swimming vocation continued with further Olympic and satellite titles earlier his status successful 2006.