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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, 2014What 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, 2014And 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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