Figure skating star Nancy Kerrigan was overcome with emotion, revealing that she knew at least two skaters on the plane that crashed Wednesday night.
Magic Johnson, Tara Lipinski, Johnny Weir, Scott Hamilton and others from the sports world reacted on social media to the tragic D.C. airplane crash Thursday.
Among the 67 lives lost were top skaters from the United States and Russia, including several children, poised to become the future stars of tomorrow.
The Sporting News has the latest updates on the U.S. figure skaters involved in the plane crash in Washington, D.C.
They were returning home from a camp for young figure skaters identified as having promise.
“Our coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were on board the crashed plane,” a source is quoted as telling the news outlet. The couple, who competed for Russia and are believed to have married in 1995, moved to the U.S. in 1998 and now coach figure skating at the Skating Club of Boston.
As news trickled out about the victims of the Washington D.C. plane crash, the figure skating community mourned several of its own.
The U.S. Figure Skating Championships took place Jan. 21-26 in Wichita, Kansas. U.S. Figure Skating did not identify any of the members of its team that were on board. Doug Zeghib
Jinna Han and Spencer Lane, two skaters training at the Norwood club, and their mothers were killed. Two coaches at the facility were also among the victims.
At least a dozen figure skaters, coaches and their family members were on the plane that crashed near Washington, D.C., including two teenage competitors and a Russian husband-and-wife coaching duo.
Several members' of the U.S. Figure Skating community were onboard the American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter over Washington, D.C., the governing body said in a statement.
Multiple members of the Skating Club of Boston were on the flight back from Wichita, Kansas after the recent U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Earlier on Thursday, the Bruins released a statement mourning the tragic loss of lives. And later on Thursday evening, the Bruins held a lovely moment of silence to remember the lives lost in this tragedy.