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Road to World Juniors: Amirov, Mukhamadullin
The competition between Rodion Amirov and Shakir Mukhamadullin is electric. One Salavat Yulaev coach summarizes the dynamic in a single word: “intense.” A wash of probabilities race across the minds of Ufa’s high-profile teenagers as they look one another in the eye. Has proximity granted the gift of clairvoyance—an anticipation of the counter-attack? The pair of prospects are teammates in the lens of a television camera, but in the confines of Ufa’s locker room, they wage war. The battleground may be confined to the nineteen inches of a backgammon board, but the prize is immeasurable.
