Elise Christie... Obviously one of the big stories of the games again for GB.
Unlucky, or just not good enough in the crunch times? I know she's a world champion so she's obviously good. Is she just trying too much when she knows a lot of the country will be watching in the Olympic finals?
You obviously have to be pretty hardcore to do that sport, and there are plenty of fallers particularly when it really matters.
I feel it is likely one of those occasions where people try and fit reasons to what they have seen when the likelihood is she is just running bad. If she wants to win she has to take the fine margins. She won 2 World Championship golds last season, so she can't really bottle the big occasions. If people had seen those events on the BBC, they wouldn't be saying she can't handle the big occasion.
But no-one would have seen the Worlds, the fact that she knows she has a lot of people watching maybe adds a lot of pressure to her, she knows what happened last games and the bbc seem to have made a huge deal of it and portrayed her as some kind of martyr of the British cause. As you say she has to take the fine margins, it does seem a very unforgiving sport where even if you do everything correct you still might get taken out by someone falling inside of you. So maybe she's just been very unlucky, every time it comes to the crunch.