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Once a mekka for speed skaters, the icerink of Almaty (Medeo) now symbolizes the grim situation of a former Soviet Republic.
Nowadays, the rink is in decay and there are hardly funds to maintain it. The ice is perfect, and there is almost no one skating. When I skated there, I was with only 3 other persons... The setting is still dramatic: high snowy mountains all around, which sometimes produce that effect for which the rink was famous, a wind going around the stadium resulting in skaters having the wind from behind twice each lap. There are not many places in which I have felt so clearly the effect of changing world. This place, before jealously guarded as one of the places where Soviet skaters could prove their supremacy over Western ones, is now in neglect, in decay, and one can almost wait until one november it is not even opened anymore.
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