A BRITISH athlete was enjoying a cheese ploughmans on a train at Taunton station when she discovered she had won an Olympic medal.

This was the bizarre scenario for former British javelin thrower Goldie Sayers, who was informed her fourth place at the 2008 Games in Beijing had been upgraded on Thursday.

And she found out while waiting at Taunton station aboard a GWR train.

She tweeted: "When did you find out you’d won an Olympic bronze medal? Me: sitting on a stationary GWR train in Taunton station eating a cheese ploughmans."

Sayers, who holds the British record for javelin at 66.17m, finished fourth in Beijing with a distance of 63.48m.

However, bronze medallist Mariya Abakumova - who threw 63.94m - has since had all of her results scrubbed from the record after tests confirmed she was among 14 Russian athletes implicated in doping following the retesting of urine from the Games.