Gold medalist Laura Trott of Britain celebrates after her team won the track cycling women's pursuit team event during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012. The British women's pursuit track cycling team shattered its own world recor
Gold medalist Laura Trott of Britain celebrates after her team won the track cycling women's pursuit team event during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012. The British women's pursuit track cycling team shattered its own world record for the second time Saturday and beat the United States to win the Olympic gold medal. Christophe Ena, Associated Press
By Associated Press

Laura Trott, Britain's Olympic gold medal-winning track cyclist, will have two mailboxes painted in her honor after the country's Royal Mail postal service mixed up her place of birth.

The Royal Mail is painting one of its famous red post boxes gold in the home town of each of Britain's gold medal winners.

But after the postal service decorated a box in Harlow, in eastern England, Trott said her birthplace was actually 14 miles (22.5km) away in Cheshunt. She mobilized her followers on Twitter to lobby the Royal Mail.

It quickly responded and said the cyclist would be honored with not one but two golden post boxes.

— David Stringer - Twitter http://twitter.com/david_stringer

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