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MORGAN AND HEATH!
This week, Jessica and Spencer chat with gymnastics royalty—2017 world all-around champion Morgan Hurd and 2018 Australian national floor champion and Worlds squad member Heath Thorpe—about being the undisputed monarchs of the gymternet and much more, including
- How they became friends and whether they’re accepting applications for new members
- Behind the scenes stories from 2018 worlds
- Which apparatuses are the stupidest and least stupidedest
- Forcing Morgan to try to come up with the names of MAG skills
- Heath’s gymnastics idols, and his decision to be out publicly on the internet
- Embarrassing fan tales about the time Morgan met Aliya Mustafina
- The story behind Morgan’s new floor routine, and if there are any other secret upgrades she can reveal to us
- The deal with Morgan’s crazy elbow and her most recent surgery
- The Morgiboo Book Club – what are we reading this month?
- Favorite movie genres, escape rooms, how 3 out of 4 of us don’t care about Game of Thrones, and all kinds of nonsense
What’s next? You can catch Heath competing at the Australian National Championships, May 24-26 in Melbourne!
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- Drug Murder at Le Club Gymnastics
- State of the National Teams Address
- Things Are Happening – April 26, 2019
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