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Eight days before she’s due to compete at the British Figure Skating Championships, Nina Povey falls out of a jump in practice and the blade on her left boot goes awry. The 9.25 inch piece of sharpened steel – forged in Sheffield, like Povey’s career — stabs through her other skate and punctures her right foot.
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