What is the case that former world short track speed skating champion Iris Christie is now raising money by delivering pizza to achieve her dream of participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics?
Christie, a 30-year-old British girl who currently works at Pizza Hut's Nottingham branch, revealed to The Sun that she currently works several part-time jobs to earn money. Why do short track speed skating champions have to work to earn money and raise their own funds? The reason is that the British side cut the spending budget of its own winter Olympic athletes by 8 million pounds ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In the previous three Winter Olympics, Christie represented the British short track speed skating team, in order to compete in the Beijing Winter Olympics, Christie had to rely on odd jobs to raise funds, she posted a selfie on the personal ins, accompanied by text: "Let's go... I'm an athlete during the day and I come to deliver pizza at night. ”
Christie seems satisfied with her current state of life to the fullest, in addition to delivering pizza, she has to promote her new book, and intends to become a police officer, of course, her biggest passion is the work of delivering pizza, in her own words, "I am fortunate to work with such a wonderful team." ”
Christie fights so hard, mainly to realize his dream of participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the past two Winter Olympics, the Scottish girl has encountered too much trouble and left many unpleasant memories. In the women's 500m final of short track speed skating at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Christie collided with Italy's Fang Tana and fell off the track, causing South Korea's Park Seung-chi to fall and miss the gold medal, and in the end, China's Li Jianrou won the gold medal in the project. As a result, Christie was verbally abused and even threatened with death by Korean netizens on social networks, and she had to shut down her personal social media and suffered from depression under great pressure, taking antidepressants since 2017.
At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, in the semifinals of the short track speed skating women's 1500 meters, Christie collided with China's Li Jinyu, resulting in serious knee and ankle injuries, and finally Christie was found guilty of fouling and Li Jinyu was sentenced to the final. In the women's 1000m preliminaries, Christie, who played with an injury, fell heavily first, and then was sentenced by the referee to foul, and after the game, she could not help but cry bitterly.
Although there is still no breakthrough in the results, Christie has gained the sweetness of envying others. Her boyfriend, Liu Shaolin of Chinese Hungarian descent, won Hungary's first Winter Olympic gold medal in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics men's 5,000m relay with his younger brother Liu Shaoang and other teammates in the country's history. Before the award ceremony, Liu Shaolin ran to the sidelines, carried the injured Christie behind her, and let her climb the podium together to share the joy of winning the championship with herself. The love story of transnational sister-brother love has been known to everyone since then. At that time, Liu Shaolin also praised his girlfriend Christie as a strong girl, and said that he would let her persist for another four years to win a championship at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
However, for Christie, after a short period of sweetness, there is endless darkness. After PyeongChang returned home, Christie planned to expand her house, but when she gave almost all of her savings to the renovation company, the renovation company ran away. To make matters worse, in the summer of 2018, Liu Shaolin broke up with Christie through text messages, and during that time, Christie, who was trapped in boundless darkness, even had self-harm behavior, and her statement at the time was heart-wrenching, "Although self-harm is not very serious, I am still self-harming, because I don't know what to do otherwise." ”
Now that Christie has come out of the trough, she looks forward to shining at next year's Winter Olympics in Beijing. Christie said in an interview with the British media: "All efforts are to win a medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics to make up for my regrets in the Past At the Winter Olympics. I want to challenge my ability to withstand pressure and maintain a healthy mental state, which is why I am trying to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics. ”
For Christie, who won three golds at the World Championships and ten golds in the European Championships, she is indeed very eager to win at the Winter Olympics, and after all these years of ups and downs and grinding, Christie has now looked down on the victory and defeat and gains and losses, and she enjoys the process of fighting for her dreams, which may be the reason why she loves to deliver pizza.