INTERVIEW

This week, we have a very special chat with new world all-around champion, expert zombie-worm escaper, official badass woman, and favorite gymnast of young-adult authors the world over, MORGAN HURD. We discuss:

• Whether we're still allowed to call her Morgiboo
• Which gymnasts she fangirls out over
• If she's totally sick of people talking about her glasses yet
• All the behind-the-scenes scoop from worlds
  • What she thinks about camp secrecy and possible SPIES
  • What she thought about the lighting in the arena and training gym
  • What happened when Ragan got injured before the AA final
  • Who cried the most when she won
• Current training and TOP-SECRET upgrades
• Ideas for getting "the Hurd" in the code of points (we have a lot)
• Upcoming competition plans
• HARRY POTTER
  • Which house Morgan would be in
  • Morgan and Spencer throw down about Hagrid's teaching abilities
  • Statues of Dobby and fuzzy sock tributes
• Which song from Hamilton would make the best floor music
• Nastia's obsession with her
• Getting confused for a child literally all the time
• How she decided on Florida
• What she thinks about NBC's "China would really love to have her" comments

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