By Short Track Manager
Six months after a blade opened up her face in an Olympic quarter-final, Kamila Sellier is skating again. The Polish short track racer is back on the ice and has set the opening stop of the 2026/27 ISU Short Track World Tour in Vancouver as her target — with the caveat that the injury which put her there is not fully behind her.
Sellier arrived at Milano Cortina 2026 in the best form of her career, having helped Poland to Mixed Relay silver at the European Championships earlier that season. Her Games ended in a crash in the 1500m, when a skate caught her above the eye.
The damage needed two operations: a first in Milano to address three broken bones, and a second in Poland to reconstruct the orbital bone with a titanium mesh that is expected to stay in permanently. Months of rehabilitation followed. She is now training in Türkiye and had been back on the ice only a matter of days when she spoke to the ISU.
Her sight has come a long way. "My vision is improving. I can really see clearly with my left eye now, but the double vision stayed," she said.
That remaining symptom is the one that matters competitively, because of where it shows up. "It's exactly the same. The double vision when I look up is really hard to fix and, as we know, in Short Track we need to look up all the time."
Short track is a sport of scoreboard glances, lap counts and reading the pack ahead through a corner. Double vision on the upward look is close to the worst place for it to sit.
World Tour #1 runs in Vancouver from October 23–25, 2026. Sellier is clear that it is a target rather than a commitment: "That's my plan. It can always change, but I really want to be there."
Sellier is in the pool, she is active, and she is cheap.
| Asset | Price | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| Kamila Sellier | ◆3M | Up |
| Poland Mixed Relay | ◆10M | Up |
| Poland Women's 3000m Relay | ◆7M | Up |
| Poland Men's 5000m Relay | ◆7M | Flat |
At ◆3M against a ◆100M budget spread across 13 roster slots, she costs well under half an average slot. Her price is built from a rolling scoring window that has been running without her since February, which is exactly why it is this low — the number reflects a missing season, not a verdict on the skater who won European Mixed Relay silver before the crash.
That is the shape of the bet. If she makes Vancouver and races anywhere near her pre-injury level, ◆3M is one of the cheapest routes into a genuine World Tour points scorer in the game. If the double vision does not resolve, or the return slips, a manager has committed a small amount of budget to a slot that produces nothing.
Two things worth putting in the diary. Poland's Mixed Relay at ◆10M is the indirect way to back the same recovery without staking a roster spot on one skater's eyesight. And World Tour #6 is in Gdansk on February 5–7, 2027 — a home stop on Polish ice, and the sort of fixture a returning Polish racer builds a season around.
A reminder on all of the above: prices move. Every athlete and relay team is repriced after each competition based on the rolling scoring window, so these figures are a starting point, not a fixed cost.
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