MacKenzie+Smallwood

Christine Nesbitt, Canada's 1000m speed skater, brought home gold yesterday at the vancouver 2010 olympics on February 18th. Christine had said she was not the favourite for the 1000m, but beat the Dutch silver medalist , Annette Gerritsen by two hundredths of a second. The Canadian told CTV that she hadn't had a good race, and that it had just paid off in the end. The 24 year old, started to show her interest in speed skating since the aged of twelve , and the interest of athletics while in elementary school.