British short track speed skater Elise Christie stormed to 500m gold in Calgary on Sunday to open her World Cup campaign in fine style. Virgil Green Jersey . The Sky Academy Sports Scholar had revealed in the build-up to a new season that she had been learning to lose and training with her male team-mates to help sharpen her skills on and off the ice.And she had to deal with defeat right at the start, crashing out in the quarter-finals in the first 500m event which would have brought back some painful memories from the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi when she fell and was disqualified three times. Chinas Kexin Fan took the glory with victory in Saturdays first race, but there was no holding Christie back in Sundays second 500m showdown.The 26-year-old from Livingston was dominant in the qualifying races and in the final led from start to finish before crossing the line in a British record time of 42.565 seconds. Canadian Jamie MacDonald was second, while Dutch star Yara van Kerkhof and Hungarys Petra Jaszapati trailed in third and fourth. Christie (C) with her reward alongside Jamie MacDonald (L) and Yara van Kerkhof (R) Christie now has 10,144 points in the overall classification ahead of Fan (10,000) and Van Kerkhof (8,078).Next up for Christie is the second World Cup event in Salt Lake City, USA before heading to Shanghai and Gangneung in South Korea before Christmas.The short track speed skating World Championships is in Rotterdam in March.WHATS COMING UP FOR OUR SCHOLARS....NOV 7-10: Jack Bateson, GB boxing training campNOV 11-14: Elise Christie, World Cup, Salt Lake City, USANOV 12: Jessica Judd, Milton Keynes XC Also See: Christie on mental powers Elise on her lively start Christie ready for Korea Elise Christie profile Mike Pouncey Chargers Jersey . He insists hes not counting. "If youre thinking hits, youre not paying attention to wins," Altuve said Sunday after leading the Houston Astros past the Texas Rangers 3-2. Caleb Sturgis Jersey . His brother — Red Lake chiropractor Richard Radford — is en route to Sochi to cheer on his younger brother. "Ive been getting texts from Eric and he just says the atmosphere is amazing, its special,” he said. http://www.losangeleschargersauthentic.com/caleb-sturgis-chargers-jersey-c-75/ . She still remembers the massive roar of the home crowd when the Canadians walked out on the pitch before 47,784 fans at Commonwealth Stadium in 2002. Lang expects a similar reception for the Canadian team as the host nation at this years tournament, which begins Tuesday.MELBOURNE, Australia - Roman Safiullin of Russia won the boys singles title and Slovakias Tereza Mihalikova won the girls singles title at the Australian Open on Saturday.Mihalikova won five consecutive games after Katie Swan took a medical timeout to beat the British player 6-1, 6-4.Top-seeded Safiullin broke Hong Seong-chans serve in the penultimate game of the opening set, then held his serve to clinch the set on his way to a 7-5, 7-6 (2) win over the South Korean.Safiullin also broke Hongs serve to open the second set, then dominated the tiebreaker and clinched the match when Hong hit a backland long.Swan left the court leading 3-0 in the second set and later received treatment for a right thigh injury. The 115-year-old Swan struggled after that and needed to save two match points in the ninth game. Los Angeles Chargers Jerseys. Mihalikova, a 16-year-old member of Slovakias junior Fed Cup team, served out the match.When she went to the medical, I sat in the chair and said OK, Tereza, come on, win this in two sets, Mihalikova said. I started to believe in myself, and Im happy I did it.Swan, who is based in Wichita, Kansas due to her familys work commitments, had been badly hampered by muscle cramps in the third set of her 2 hour, 36-minute semifinal match on Friday.I didnt have much time to recover from yesterday, so I think that had something to do with my injury, Swan said. Unfortunately, not much I can do about it. Wholesale NFL Womens Jerseys China Womens NFL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale NFL Autographed Jerseys Jerseys NFL China Youth NFL Jerseys Wholesale Youth NFL Jerseys Cheap ' ' '