If you were in halls at university, you may know the feeling … the night before your last exam, flatmates on a different course who have been out celebrating finishing theirs drunkenly barge into your room in the middle of the night after mistaking it for their own. Now, imagine we’re not on campus but at the Olympic village in Rio, and you need a good night’s sleep before racing for gold the following day.
That’s the scenario that led to Team GB’s women’s track cyclists put a polite note on the door leading to their accommodation on Friday gently reminding the men’s team pursuit quartet, out toasting their dramatic victory over Australia, that they had the wrong room.
Owain Doull, who won gold alongside Sir Bradley Wiggins, Ed Clancy and Steven Burke on Friday, tweeted a picture of the note yesterday.
Hats off to the girls they know us too well pic.twitter.com/N9xgcXzN1M
— Owain Doull (@owaindoull) August 13, 2016
And it turns out the note even served its purpose.
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

6 thoughts on ““This is not your room” – GB women send team pursuit men “friendly reminder””
No locks on the doors at the
No locks on the doors at the Olympic Village?
Leviathan wrote:
probably, but that would probably just add to the confusion as they scrabble away at the keyhole with their medals. If you can’t get properly blootered and stumble about in bewildered confusion after winning a gold, then there probably isn’t ever an appropriate time
well done all the pursuiters, it’s a delight to watch them working in such harmony and perfection and it all working out
I wonder if the guys put a
I wonder if the guys put a similar note on their door.
jova54 wrote:
Well if I were one for pranks, I’d have quietly moved the ladies note to the mens door…
“This is not the room you’re
“This is not the room you’re looking for”
I wouldn’t have thought the
I wouldn’t have thought the men would be sober enough to care!