Blade slices over Sellier’s eye in Olympic speedskating 1500
MILAN — Short-track speedskater Kamila Sellier of Poland was immobilized on a stretcher and wheeled out of the Milano Ice Skating Arena on Friday evening after a competitor’s blade sliced her over her left eye through the ladies’s 1500 meters on the Milan Cortina Olympics.
Sellier went down together with 15-time Olympic medalist Ariana Fontana of Italy and American skater Kristen Santos-Griswold, who was penalized for an unlawful lane go that contributed to the accident. That stored her from advancing by the quarterfinal spherical.
The race was paused whereas Sellier obtained consideration, a big white sheet blocking her from the group that was packed into the world to look at the ultimate evening of short-track speedskating. She finally gave a thumbs-up to the group as she was taken away, leaving a path of blood in the ultimate nook of the monitor that staff needed to clear up through the break.
Polish officers mentioned Sellier’s eye was OK. She obtained stitches in the world earlier than going to the hospital for extra checks.
Fontana’s skinsuit was nicked up and he or she obtained some assist from her physiotherapist on her left hip through the pause. She wound up ending second to Hanne Desmet of Belgium, sending her by to the semifinal spherical.
She later superior into the finals, narrowly edging Zhang Chutong on the ending line
Fontana, the reigning Olympic silver medalist in the 1500, was attempting to interrupt a tie with Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen as probably the most embellished Winter Olympian. They are tied with 15 medals, together with gold that Fontana gained in the two,000-meter combined relay and the silver medals she gained in the five hundred meters and three,000-meter relay earlier in the Milan Cortina Games.
