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 ...
Dick Button, daredevil ‘godfather’ of figure skating and Emmy-winning commentator, dies at 95
Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating and literally took the sport to new heights, ...
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Figure skating community mourns victims of deadly plane crash collision: ‘At a loss for words’
Members of the figure skating community have spoken out after an American Airlines flight tragically collided with an Army helicopter late Wednesday night in Washington, D.C., leaving all 67 on ...
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How the D.C. Plane Crash Shattered Wichita’s Big Dreams of Skating and Flight
The city had tried for years to host the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and to get a direct flight to the northeast. By Kevin Draper Reporting from Wichita, Kan. Wichita might be the country ...
Figure skating legends Tara Lipinski, Nancy Kerrigan, Adam Rippon and more speak on ‘unimaginable’ DC plane crash
US Figure Skating had previously confirmed several members of the skating community were onboard the American Airlines flight that collided with a Blackhawk military helicopter Wednesday night.
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Figure skating community reels from losses of athletes, coaches and family
The country’s figure skating community mourned Thursday in the wake of news that young athletes, coaches and family members made up as much as a third of the 60 passengers on the American ...
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Figure skaters 'horrified, heartbroken' over D.C. plane crash: Reactions from across sport
The international figure skating community was in shock Thursday as more details emerged about the tragic plane crash near Washington, D.C. that authorities fear has no survivors. U.S. Figure ...
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Trainer mourns figure skating couple after DC plane crash in horrific family tragedy: ‘Best people have been taken away’
Russian figure-skating coaches and spouses Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were among the passengers onboard the doomed American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk ...
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Plane crash near DC resurfaces memories of 1961 tragedy that killed US skating team
Wednesday night's plane crash outside Washington, D.C., that killed a yet-unknown number of U.S. figure skaters, coaches and family members was devastating news for the skating community.
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Married world champion figure skaters were on board American Airlines flight during collision: report
Shishkova and Naumov, who were married to each other, won the world championships in pairs figure skating in 1994 and had reportedly lived in the United States since at least 1998, where they ...
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US Figure Skating: 'Several members of our skating community were sadly aboard American Airlines Flight 5342'
WASHINGTON — U.S. Figure Skating confirmed to WUSA9 early Thursday morning that several members of "our skating community" were aboard American Airlines Flight 5342 that crashed into the Potomac ...
Figure skating community reels from losses of athletes, coaches and family
Former world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the flight from Wichita, which hosted last week’s U.S.championships.