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Ian Thorpe in Narrow Escape at World Trade Center

Sep 13, 2001  - Paul Quinlan

Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe narrowly escaped the tragedy which struck the World Trade Center in New York on Tuesday.

Thorpe had been visiting New York accompanied by Michelle Flaskas, wife of manager David Flaskas when he decided to take an early morning stroll and visited the World Trade Center building. He decide he would return with his camera after breakfast and take photographs from the top floor viewing platform.

Mrs. Flaskas was at the hotel at the time. "Thank goodness he didn't leave fifteen minutes earlier", an emotional Flaskas said from his home in Sydney.