Oliver Brown Sat, 14 February 2026 at 8:05 am UTC·10 min read As hard as Elise Christie hit the crash barriers during her ill-starred Olympic career, it paled against the shuddering impact of her reacquaintance with real life. She was once the poster-girl of winter sport in Britain, a blonde bolt of lightning whose dominance in short-track speed skating, a veritable demolition derby on ice, made her races at the Games appointment viewing. And yet the litany of woe that ensued, with six successive attempts at gold dissolving amid crashes, disqualifications and tears, left her mentally and physically broken.Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement “If you had met me when I was a teenager, I...
