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Figure Skating Community in Shock

'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.

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Members of U.S. figure skating community were on flight that collided with Army helicopter

"Several members" of the U.S. figure skating community were on American Airlines Flight 5342, according to U.S. Figure Skating.

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‘We are devastated’: Members of US Figure Skating community were on Wichita plane in crash

Several coaches and skaters with the United States figure skating team were on the flight from Wichita to Washington, D.C., that crashed Wednesday night, according to U.S. Figure Skating. The flight is not believed to have any survivors.

Dick Button, Skating’s Titanic Figure, Dead

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Dick Button, US figure skating pioneer, will always be 'godfather of this sport'

Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion in figure skating, embodied the sport. He is the 'godfather of this sport,' Tara Lipinski once said.

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Dick Button, first U.S. Olympic figure skating gold medalist, dies at 95

Dick Button, the legendary figure skater who became the first American to win Olympic gold in the sport, died Thursday at age 95 of natural causes, according to U.S. Figure Skating. In 1948, Button, then 18,

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Dick Button, dominant U.S. figure skating icon, dies at 95

Dick Button, who won figure skating gold for Team USA in 1948 and 1952 before going on to star as a commentator, has died, his family announced. He was 95.

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 ...

Who won the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita? See the top results

Among those athletes competing in Wichita are former and hopefully future Olympians, many of whom are also defending national ...

Hamilton: Long road ahead for figure skating, but it can persevere

The close-knit community of figure skating will be tested to endure the tragedy in Washington, D.C.. But, as after the ...

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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 ...

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N.J.-born Olympic great and voice of skating dies at 95

Dick (Button) was one of the most important figures in our sport,” said Scott Hamilton, the 1984 Olympic champion. “There ...

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Plane Crash Victims Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov Said Son 'Made Us All Proud' at Competition in Final Post

World Figure Skating pairs champions frequently shared pictures of their skating pupils, including their son, Maxim Naumov ...

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2 teens from a Boston skating club, their mothers, and coaches among passengers on downed flight

Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River ...

World champion Russian skaters on American Airlines jet built a new life as coaches in the US

Shishkova and Naumov were among many Russian skaters who sought a new life as coaches in the U.S. following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Their profiles on the Skating Club of ...

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