Ian Thorpe, the former Australian Olympic swimmer doesn’t miss much. He won three gold medals and two silver medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics and eleven World Championship gold medals. But in 2001 he missed an important date. He was out jogging in New York City and intended to go to the observation deck of the World Trade Center when done. However, he realized that he had forgotten his camera in his hotel room. He hailed a cab, returned to his room, and turned on his television to discover he had narrowly missed death. The date was 9/11/2001.
