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From Target to Beijing
Published: 10/9/2008 11:04 AM
Last Modified: 10/9/2008 11:04 AM

Olympic silver medalist Jonathan Horton, who is performing in a gymnastics show at the BOK Center Thursday night, doesn’t regret putting the Target story in his bio information.
Most athletes have a bio sheet that is distributed to media folks in order to educate the questioner. Prominent on Horton’s bio sheet is a tale when he was 4 years old and he ditched his mother in a Target store.
Of course, that’s way more interesting than what his favorite color is, so he gets asked about it all the time.
“Everyone wants to know about the Target thing,” he said.
“I remember nothing of it. My mom is the one that tells me about it. My mom was shopping and turned around and I was gone. Five to 10 minutes later, after freaking out and going up to the manager and saying ‘I can’t find my son,’ one of the guys that worked there finally looked up and saw me, wrapped around a pole. I had shimmied all the way up to the ceiling. He said, ‘hey, Bud, can you come on down?’ I slid down like nothing.”
Is it any wonder the little guy grew up to be a gymnast?
Asked if he was banned from ever going in Target stores again, Horton said that probably should happen.
“My mom, she’s kind of working as my manager right now and taking care of any kind of promotional events that I am supposed to go to,” he said.
“She said maybe I should call Target and see if I can get you some kind of sponsorship. And my dad is like, ‘no, they will never do that, because then kids will come in the stores and start trying to do what he was doing’.”



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