Heath Thorpe enters his journalist era at the World Championships with a shoutout from Simone Biles
https://t.co/MWUTPtwWV2I’m not crying you’re crying https://t.co/DM6WytWOk1Queen doing Queen things for our King. Bringing attention to the real issues in gymnastics and giving our king all the motivation he needs to grow past this speed bump and thrive. ????????
https://t.co/PEa6IBzrDXThorpe, despite winning the Australian All-Around Championships, one of the country’s highest honors in gymnastics, was curiously snubbed from Australia’s World Championship squad.
Back in July, he appealed his non-selection to the National Sports Tribunal, which partially upheld his case. When Australia Gymnastics didn’t reverse its decision, he appealed once again, but lacked the financial means to move forward.“I did not have the financial means to continue the case,” he wrote at the time. “I was also emotionally exhausted and isolated.
This process had been going on for weeks.”But ever resilient, Thorpe found his way to the competition, anyway. He signed on to cover the Championships as a reporter.
