American Bobsledder Defeats Sochi Bathroom Door in Unmedaled Competition

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Like any champion, American bobsledder Johnny Quinn credited his training for helping him break through a jammed door in Sochi earlier today.

The trouble started earlier this morning when Quinn...well...fortunately for us, he narrated his harrowing experience:

I was taking a shower and the door got locked/jammed....

— Johnny Quinn (@JohnnyQuinnUSA) February 8, 2014

What would Johnny Quinn do? Stay put? MacGyver his way out? Become another victim of the narrow divide between Sochi's semi-troubling real problems and its not-so-serious first world problems? 

...With no phone to call for help, I used my bobsled push training to break out. #SochiJailBreak pic.twitter.com/apZRefgvCO

— Johnny Quinn (@JohnnyQuinnUSA) February 8, 2014

And there you have it. The Sochi Jailbreak. Or as some Europeans may call it in the coming days: Americans being American.

Americans being too stupid to open European doors pic.twitter.com/q7Kpa789U0 #SochiJailBreak

— ApfelMUSE (@_apfelmuse_) February 8, 2014

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