World short track speed skating champion Élise Christie is raising money for her participation in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Christie, 30, currently works at a Branch of Pizza Hut in Nottingham. She revealed that she is now doing several jobs after the athletes of the British Winter Olympic delegation were cut by £8 million in funding ahead of the Winter Olympics.
Christie, who has represented The United Kingdom in the first two Winter Olympics, claims to enjoy her job at Pizza Hut. Earlier this week, she uploaded a photo of herself in a Pizza Hut uniform and wrote: "From an athlete during the day to a pizza courier at night." Under another similar post, she wrote: "I have to say I've been very lucky lately. I went back to the field and trained with a group of good players. But the most surprising thing is that I don't even hate working in a pizzeria. ”
The Scots brought down South Korea's Park Seung-chi before falling out of the women's 500m gold medal at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, leading to a lucky victory for China's Lee Kin-rou, and angry South Korean netizens issued death threats and online violence against her, causing her to suffer from depression. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, she experienced another nightmare. Christie was admitted to the hospital with an ankle injury in the 1500m semifinals after breaking the Olympic record in the quarter-finals of the 500m. The final blow was that she passed the health test for the 1000m final, but was disqualified for making unsafe, harmful or dangerous moves.
But despite the blow, Christie is determined to set off a boom in China next year. She told reporters: "The goal of everything is (to win a medal in Beijing), step by step, and to redouble our efforts on the weaknesses of the last Olympic Games." While I was still in the spotlight, I was trying to get rid of the stress surrounding mental health, which was a big goal for me. ”
Yang Hua, a well-known sports writer, pointed out that Chinese netizens familiar with short track speed skating should also be familiar with Christie, because in recent years, China and South Korea women's short track competition, Christie is the most famous spoiler, and she also has the strength to win medals and even gold medals in the Winter Olympics. But the pandemic led to a recession in Britain, and Christie didn't have enough money to prepare for the Winter Olympics, so she chose to deliver pizza. Obviously, some outstanding athletes in unpopular sports in Europe and the United States cannot get the material guarantee of the country and lack the superiority of the national system, and China's support for the active Olympic card athletes is the best.