Johnny Quinn Wall Street Journal Story

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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/