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Staff writer Zain Haidar reports: Olympic bobsledder Johnny Quinn, who channeled the Incredible Hulk and smashed through a jammed bathroom door in Sochi on Saturday, has accepted an invitation from the Denton Police Department to attend SWAT training. The McKinney native has become Internet famous after tweeting a photo of the tattered bathroom door. Two days after the 30-year-old smashed his way into becoming a meme, he got stuck in an elevator with a few friends but didn’t pry it open. Read more: http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2014/02/olympian-johnny-quinn-accepts-invite-to-denton-police-swat-training.html/ -
In a tweet sent one minute later, Quinn wrote, “…With no phone to call for help, I used my bobsled push training to break out.” An accompanying photo showed a cartoonish hole punched through the upper half of a door. Quinn closed the tweet with the hashtag “#SochiJailBreak.” A former football captain at the University of North Texas, Quinn had stints as a wide receiver on two NFL teams before going to Saskatchewan of the Canadian Football League in 2009. He suffered a knee injury and, after rehabilitation, switched to bobsled. But Quinn’s biggest star turn came Saturday. As of 7:30 p.m. local time, about six hours after Quinn tweeted the photo, it had been re-tweeted more than 11,000 times. A USA Today blog post with the photo had been shared more than 75,000 times on social media. Read more: http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2014/02/08/a-sochi-jail-break-for-u-s-bobsledder-johnny-quinn/
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You don't have to live in a cold-weather city to become a winter Olympian. Johnny Quinn of from McKinney is proof of that. The way his mother tells it, Quinn — a former pro football player and University of North Texas standout — has been ready for the spotlight his whole life. "I think he's the only football player who ever went to college with an ironing board and an iron," Terri Quinn said. "He always wanted to look sharp." Johnny Quinn's family believes this is his moment to be noticed by the world as part of the USA bobsled team. "The end goal is to be on that podium in Sochi with a medal around our neck watching our flag fly high," Quinn told News 8 from Russia. Read more: http://www.wfaa.com/sports/winter-olympics/UNT-grad-going-for-the-gold-at-Sochi-243854411.html
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UNT's Johnny Quinn will give eagle claw sign on medal podium!
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