In figure skating community, grief of plane crash spans geography and generations
As the figure skating community grappled with the deaths of more than 15 skaters, coaches and parents, the grief was felt across the world.
Figure skating community mourns the loss of legend Dick Button in the wake of D.C. plane crash tragedy
Tragedy struck the figure skating community this week when 14 people traveling to D.C. from a national development camp were killed in a plane crash. The following day, skating legend Dick Button passed at 95.
'Hearts are heavy': 14 members of figure skating community among victims of DC plane crash
Figure skaters and coaches returning from the U.S. national championships were aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with a Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday.
14 from figure skating community killed in plane crash, six of them from Boston club
Two highly-regarded Russian figure skating coaches whose son recently finished fourth at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships were among those feared dead after an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River Wednesday night.
Former Olympians, World Champion figure skaters celebrated son’s medal before plane crash
Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov’s son Maxim, who medaled in the U.S. Championships in Wichita, was not on the plane that crashed into the Potomac River Wednesday. He flew home earlier in the week.
Dick Button, Olympic legend and figure skating commentator, dies at 95
Two-time Olympic gold medalist and five-time world champ was also an influential broadcaster for more than five decades.
Plane crash kills world champion figure skaters and the ‘future’ of the sport in a tragic case of déjà vu
Once again, figure skaters representing the past, present and future of the sport perished in a catastrophic plane crash.
Close-knit Massachusetts figure skating world shares a bond, and now a tragedy
Several skaters, parents, coaches, and officials had just wrapped up an elite training camp in Wichita, Kan., including ...
The U.S. figure skaters in plane crash in the Potomac: Everything we know so far
Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the American ...
U.S. and Russian figure skaters were on plane that crashed in D.C.
Top figure skaters from the United States and Russia were on board the plane that crashed in Washington, D.C., after ...
Teen figure skater ‘rocketing to the top of the sport’ and his mom killed in plane crash
The director of 16-year-old Spencer Lane’s skating club said he was known for being, “very fun, very cerebral, a good thinker ...
Figure skaters from US, Russia among those aboard doomed plane that crashed near DC
Several figure skaters, their coaches and family members had been on a flight to Washington after the U.S. Figure Skating ...
U.S. Figure Skaters, Coaches Involved in DC Plane Crash: Reports
Multiple figure skaters and coaches who took part in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships were reportedly aboard an airplane ...
A groom-to-be pilot, a daughter of Indian immigrants and figure skating champions are among DC air collision victims
Here are some of the victims of the tragedy identified so far. A mother and her young son Julia Kay and her son, 11-year-old ...