Elise Christie's Olympic Curse Strikes Again

Briton's Elise Christie suffered fresh Olympic heartache on Tuesday when she took second place in her 1,000m heat after a wipe-out only to be hit with yet another disqualification

Gangneung, South Korea, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th Feb, 2018 ) :Briton's Elise Christie suffered fresh Olympic heartache on Tuesday when she took second place in her 1,000m heat after a wipe-out only to be hit with yet another disqualification.

The 27-year-old Scot displayed bags of grit to make the heat after a remarkable return from injury from her weekend smash in the 1,500m semi-finals. Dubbed Briton's unluckiest Olympian Christie only made it a few metres in the third heat when she went flying after clipping the blades of Hungarian rival Andrea Keszler.

Sliding into the side padding she looked to be in pain, but to encouraging cheers from the crowd she picked herself up, had her blades checked and lined up for the restart of the race. The world champion showed no ill effects from the accident, finishing second to Dutch skater Lara van Ruijven.

But the judges deemed her guilty of contact with Keszler, demoting her to last of the four racers, with Pole Magdalena Warakomska inheriting her second place and with it qualification to Thursday's quarter-finals.

"Unfortunately @Elise_Christie is given two penalties and won't progress to the quarter-finals of the 1000m," Team GB posted on Twitter. Christie had worked miracles to make Tuesday's heat after being stretchered off the ice and taken to hospital for X-rays.

The Briton is the reigning world champion in the 1,000m, 1,500m and holds the overall title. But she has been plagued by misfortune at the Olympics. Christie also crashed in the women's 500m final in Pyeongchang.

And at the 2014 Sochi Games, she went home empty-handed after being penalised in all three of her events. After Saturday's crash The Herald, the best-selling newspaper from Christie's native Scotland, branded her "Britain's unluckiest Olympian".