Elise Christie will decide at the last minute whether to risk racing in Tuesday’s 1000m heats after sustaining soft tissue damage in her right ankle in a dramatic crash that led to her being stretchered off the track.

A subsequent hospital scan showed that there were no broken bones, and British Olympic chiefs also insist that the 27-year-old has no mental scars despite her second high-speed smash of these Winter Olympics.

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Britain’s chef de mission Mike Hay told reporters: “She wants to make it but it might not be her decision at the end of the day – you’ve got to be able to get the skate on your foot. We’ll have to wait and see what the doctors say and take it from there.

“It’s a bit of a fight against time whether she can make it or not. But nothing is broken. She has got soft tissue damage to her right ankle and we won’t be making a decision until Tuesday morning whether she can skate or not. There must be some chance or they wouldn’t be saying we can wait. We’ll just have to sit tight for a bit.”

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Christie has faced some criticism for her gung-ho skating style, following her high-speed collision with the Chinese skater Li Jinyu in the 1500m semi-finals and a crash in the 500m final. There have also been concerns for her mental wellbeing given it follows three disqualifications in the Sochi Winter Olympics four years ago.

However, Hay insisted that Christie was mentally robust to do well at her best event, the 1000m, if fit. “We’ve got a programme put together to her the best opportunity but it’s very much in the balance. If she’s able to skate she will, I don’t think it’s a problem for her mentally.”

Hay also insisted that Team Great Britain had further chances to get to five medals at these Games, which would be their best ever performance, despite the frustration of seeing James Woods just miss out of medal in the ski slopestyle on Sunday morning.

“Woodsy is very frustrated, he had it in him to win a medal and to lose by such a small margin is pretty galling,” he said. “It’s just very tough to come fourth in an Olympics.

“But we’ve got opportunities left, Billy Morgan and Dave Ryding have both got chances. Curling isn’t looking fantastic at the moment but it’s a long round robin and Eve is still in there with a chance.

“I don’t want to tempt fate with Elise, so I’ll leave that one alone.”