Olympic Horizontal Bar medalist — some feel it should have been GOLD medalist — Jonathan Horton goes BIG.
No doubt about that.
But lost in the anticipation of the Olympics was the story of how he proposed to longtime girlfriend Haley DeProspero:
“She didn’t know it was coming,†he said, grinning.
Who could blame her?
Horton asked DeProspero to marry him between the two biggest meets of his life, the U.S. Championships and the Olympic trials. Both were part of qualifying for the U.S. Olympic team.
Not exactly a time you’d expect a big-time contender to make a life-altering decision. Then again, Horton and DeProspero have always juggled their sport and their relationship. …
Click through to read the entire romantic gymnastics fairy tale: Horton had more than Olympic rings on his mind – NewsOK
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