Did Britain's first Olympic gold medal come with a little help from Finn MacCool?

Just before rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning won the final of the women's pair, Prime Minister David Cameron wished for success at a famed spot at Northern Ireland's Giant's Causeway, a dramatic natural stairway of tens of thousands of basalt rocks that run into the Atlantic.

Legend has it that the causeway was built by MacCool, a mythical Irish warrior, who fashioned a seat-like section of rock called the Wishing Chair. Visitors who recline in the alcove are reputed to have their wishes granted.

"I'm not allowed to tell anyone what it was, but as soon as I got back and turned on my mobile phone I heard the good news," Cameron said, after he visited the site early Wednesday.

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