TOPSHOT - A player with team M.R prepares ahead of their Iranian Women's League Ice Hockey match against team Hockey Panda at the Iran Mall ice rink in Tehran on January 29, 2025. In front of an excited mixed audience, the two ice hockey teams competed in a country which still had no ice rink five years ago and where ice hockey has long remained a confidential sport, practised at best on rollerblades due to lack of infrastructure. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)