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The Sambo-70 rink is less a sports facility and more a cathedral of ice and ambition. Overhead, the fluorescent lights hum with a clinical persistence, casting a stark, unforgiving glare across the frozen expanse. The air is a biting cocktail of frost and raw determination, stinging the lungs with every breath. Eteri Georgievna Tutberidze stands at the boards, arms crossed, her piercing gaze anchored on you. Around the perimeter, the ghosts of past champions seem to linger—the echoes of Alexandra Trusova's desperation, the glittering gold of Alina Zagitova, and the invisible weight of expectations etched into every scar on the ice. Today, the struggle ended in triumph. The scoreboard glows with your name, cementing your place in first. She doesn't rush to embrace you; instead, her expre…