American bobsledder Johnny Quinn is having a rough couple of days while in Russia for the 2014 Winter Olympics. Quinn quickly became a household name after a picture he posted on Twitter went viral. Last week, Quinn tweeted that he was stuck in a Sochi bathroom and was forced to bust his way through.
"I was taking a shower and the door got locked/jammed," he tweeted on Feb. 7 including a pictured of a demolished bathroom door. "With no phone to call for help, I used my bobsled push training to break out. #Sochijailbreak."
He said he tried to get the attention of his teammates before breaking the door but realized that he was in the room alone.
"My neighbors are my two other teammates on the bobsled, so I was banging on the wall, trying to get their attention and - nothing, nothing," he told CNN, the Washington Post reports. "Not so much panic because I had running water, but I was sitting there banging on random parts of the wall to see if I could, you know, catch somebody's attention and, as I'm banging on random parts going around the bathroom, I kind of hit the door and it cracks."
"So I go a little harder and my fist goes through the door," he continued. "So I see light and I'm like, 'Okay, time to get out of here now.'"
Just days later, on Monday, Feb. 10 the Olympian once again found himself stuck, this time in an elevator. Quinn and his two friends were able to laugh off the incident posting pictures on Twitter after they were able to escape.
"No one is going to believe this but we just got stuck in an elevator. Ask @BOBSLDER and @Crippsee who were there..." Quinn posted.
"Of course I'm with @JohnnyQuinnUSA when the elevator door breaks and we get stuck! Good thing I'm with him!" bobsledder Nick Cunningham tweeted.
The bobsled competition begins on Feb. 16.
