- Christie recalls attack on night out in Nottingham aged 19
- ‘I want to be the girl who helped others turn their lives around’
The Olympic speed skater Elise Christie has spoken for the first time about the night she was raped as a 19-year-old in Nottingham. In an interview before the release of her autobiography, Resilience, the three-time world short track champion explained her desire tto help other victims by revealing her own sexual assault.
The incident occurred after she had returned from the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games on a night out when the attacker slipped her a date-rape drug in a bar before taking her back to his house. “There are not many people I’ve spoken to about it – I had to even tell my mum because she wasn’t aware,” the 31-year-old told The Daily Telegraph.
