Tara Lipinski, Nancy Kerrigan and more figure skaters are sharing statements of shock and grief after the American Airlines flight crashed Wednesday evening.
Nancy Kerrigan visited the Skating Club of Boston after six of its athletes died in a Wednesday, January 29, plane crash
Not sure how to process it,” figure skating Olympic medalist Nancy Kerrigan said through tears Thursday morning at the Norwood facility. “Which is why I’m here.”
Six people associated with Zeghibe’s club in Norwood, Massachusetts, were killed in the plane crash: skater Spencer Lane and his mother, Molly, skater Jinna Han and her mother, Jin, and coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, a married couple who were world champion pairs figure skaters from Russia in the 1990s.
Local figure skating legend Nancy Kerrigan cried on Thursday when speaking about two promising young skaters who died along with their mothers and coaches in a plane crash in Washington, D.C.
Olympian Nancy Kerrigan cried while speaking to reporters at Skating Club of Boston, her former club that had six members aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed in Washington, D.C. Jan. 29.
As news trickled out about the victims of the Washington D.C. plane crash, the figure skating community mourned several of its own.
American figure skaters, coaches and family members who had been at a camp at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas, were among those aboard the passenger jet, according to U.S. Figure Skating.
Olympian Nancy Kerrigan broke down in tears during a television interview on Thursday, Jan. 30 at the Skating Club of Boston, where six victims of the deadly American Airlines plane crashed belonged.
Olympian Nancy Kerrigan cried while speaking to reporters at Skating Club of Boston, her former club that had six members aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed in Washington, D.C. Jan. 29.
Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan tearfully offered condolences to the members of her former skating club who lost their lives in D.C. plane crash, calling the loss a “blow.” “I feel for the athletes,