Winter Olympics: Elise Christie wants to return for 2026 Games
Britain's Elise Christie has indicated she wants to return to competitive skating for the 2026 Winter Olympics.
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Winter Olympics 2022 - Elise Christie confirms intention to overturn short track retirement and compete at Milan-Cortina
Elise Christie says she is targeting a comeback in the build-up to the 2026 Winter Olympics, two months after she announced her retirement from short track speed skating. The three-time world gold medallist had teased that she had “sporting plans for 2026” when she confirmed she would step away from competition, but there were no hints at the time that it would be in the same sport.
Winter Olympics 2022 - Hungary's Shaolin Liu disqualified as Ren Ziwei takes dramatic 1000m gold
China's Ren Ziwei won his second short-track speed skating gold of the Beijing Winter Olympics — but only after a dramatic finish to the 1000m final, which was settled by a disqualification. Hungary's Shaolin Sandor Liu — who is recognisable to British viewers as the former partner of Elise Christie who consoled the British skater at the Pyeongchang 2018 Games — thought he had won it, only for replays to show he had caused an infringement.
'What a disappointment' - Heartbreak for Kathryn Thomson after first-corner crash at Winter Olympics 2022
Kathryn Thomson’s Olympic debut was spoiled at the first corner as she crashed in the women’s 500m heats at Beijing 2022. There were high hopes pinned on Team GB’s Thomson, but she made headlines for all the wrong reasons – evoking memories of Elise Christie’s heartbreaking failures at the Olympics. Ad/> Three-time world champion Christie had a string of crashes and disqualifications at Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018..
Winter Olympics: Short-track disappointment for Team GB on day one
Farrell Treacy says he went for the line a lap early in his 1,000m heat on a day of heartbreak for British short-track speed skaters at Beijing 2022.
Scottish speed skater Kathryn Thomson reveals her future hope for three-time world champion Elise Christie
Kathryn Thomson would welcome Elise Christie taking a coaching role and guiding the next generation of British short track speed skaters.
Beijing Olympics 2022 - ‘Athlete life can be lonely, we’re really lucky’ - Team GB's Cornelius Kersten and Ellia Smeding
Move over Laura and Jason Kenny — there is a new Team GB Olympic couple to focus on in the coming weeks, when Cornelius Kersten and Ellia Smeding become Britain’s first long track speed skaters in 30 years. They will be a breath of fresh air in Beijing as two athletes who are grounded and know sport is not the most important thing in life.
‘I don’t want to be in that dark place again’: Elise Christie on depression, skating and her new life
“This doesn’t feel different to a death,” Elise Christie says as she tries to build a new world without speed skating, the sport that has consumed half her life. Christie, a three-time world champion who also won 10 European titles, announced her retirement last month after a year which nearly took her life. Christie had been hoping to compete in her fourth Winter Olympics next month but, feeling let down by the sport and struggling with injury and her mental health, she says: “It’s like you’ve lost the most important thing in your life and the thing that you gave everything up for.”
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