As so many of them do, blurring country lines but never loyalties. Always searching for that thing to give them an edge: a new coach, a new rink, a new training partner, a new diet, a new crosstraining regimen. "From Russia to the US and then to Canada. I only managed to return to my home rink in Altamy last year."
Yuri Plistetsky, he thinks, understands this. This feeling of needing to be the best, for his country and his people and himself. Otabek had watched his performances in Moscow, how he fell and then redeemed himself.
He could almost feel that bruise forming on his own hip. "Now, more than ever, I want to win the championship for Kazakhstan."
All of it spoken out toward the city, while the breeze tugs at his hair, his collar. Is there a point to telling Yuri all of this? Perhaps not. But he thinks that if anyone here could understand, it would be him.
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"After that camp, I moved around to train."
As so many of them do, blurring country lines but never loyalties. Always searching for that thing to give them an edge: a new coach, a new rink, a new training partner, a new diet, a new crosstraining regimen. "From Russia to the US and then to Canada. I only managed to return to my home rink in Altamy last year."
Yuri Plistetsky, he thinks, understands this. This feeling of needing to be the best, for his country and his people and himself. Otabek had watched his performances in Moscow, how he fell and then redeemed himself.
He could almost feel that bruise forming on his own hip. "Now, more than ever, I want to win the championship for Kazakhstan."
All of it spoken out toward the city, while the breeze tugs at his hair, his collar. Is there a point to telling Yuri all of this? Perhaps not. But he thinks that if anyone here could understand, it would be him.