How Team Great Britain helped their drunken cyclists find their way home
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Owain Doull and his Great Britain cycling teammates captured gold with a world record-breaking time of 3:50.26 in the men’s team pursuit over the weekend, and their comrades on the women’s squad knew exactly how the foursome would celebrate: They’d drink to excess, like gentlemen, of course.
So, the women’s team posted a warning on the door to their own Olympic Village flat.
To the team pursuit men …
CONGRATULATIONS!!
As we’re guessing you’re probably gonna be drunk by the time you read this, and a few of you have already come into our room accidentally — just a friendly reminder that
*THIS IS NOT YOUR ROOM*
so please don’t try and get in at 4 a.m. ????
Love, the girls
P.S. If you’re really stuck, your room is <—— that way
Doull posted a picture of the message to Twitter.
Hats off to the girls they know us too well ???????????? pic.twitter.com/N9xgcXzN1M
— Owain Doull (@owaindoull) August 13, 2016
According to Wales Online, Doull messaged friends on Facebook after his team’s gold medal-winning effort, offering this inspiring message: “Olympic champ, job done. Time to get pissed with the boys.”
Sure enough, Doull showed up to the women’s digs that night, thinking it was his room.
Best part of it was I only discovered this message as I was about to walk in to there room thinking it was mine
— Owain Doull (@owaindoull) August 13, 2016
Good times.
Of course, the women had even better reason to warn the men than merely helping their fellow cyclists. Doull & Co. set their world record on Day 7 in Rio de Janeiro, and the female quartet wasn’t competing until the following morning. They too set a world record in capturing gold with a time of 4:10.23. Here’s hoping the men reciprocated and helped their fellow cyclists get home safely.