On an ice link near Washington, local residents packed flowers and animals on the lobby table.
In the suburbs of Boston, the leaders of the famous figure skating clubs crawled with tears.
However, the sadness is not limited to clubs and towns that have lost some of their loses because the figure skating community continued to work on more than 15 skaters, coaches, and parents’ death due to the deadly airplane crash dropped on Wednesday night. It was.
Since the tragedy, its ripple effect has been felt at Ice Links and Skate Clubs nationwide, from San Francisco to Montreal and Tallinn, Estonia, and even skating clubs around the world. There is a teen skater who lost his best friend. Olympic veterans and applicants who have lost their coaches. Their shared sadness grows in the field, time zone, and even generations, and reaches some people in the corners of sports in some way.
“What you have learned in skating, you will be constantly falling, but you will get up,” said Tenry Orbright in the 1956 Olympic champion and our figure skating Hall of Fame in the Hall of Fame in the Hall of Fame to USA TODAY Sports. 。 “And that’s what we need to do now, except that we don’t know how to get up.”
The collision between small commercial flights and military helicopters near the Washington Reagan National Airport is the most fatal US aviation disaster in 20 years. The authorities have not yet published the name of the victim on Friday night, but have indicated that all 67 aircraft are dead.
The fact that many of the American Airlines 5342 passengers returned from the same event -Development camp for promising young figure skaters held in Wichita, Kansas after the national championship in 2025- I did.
US figure skating has not yet identified any of the skaters on board, but USA Today has confirmed that some of them are about 11 years old.
“We’re all sad,” said Peggy Fleming, a gold medalist of the 1968 Olympics, said, “at all kinds of levels.”
The chairman of the International Skating Union, the International Federation of Figure Skating, states that the organization intends to pay tribute to the victims of CRASH drop in the 2025 World Championships in Boston in March in March. Ta.
In the European Championship, the silence moment was prior to the beginning of Thursday.
“The only thing that the skaters can speak there are how the airplane crash affected,” he said, saying, a rocker skating figure skating figure skating Ana, which has been involved in sports with various abilities for over 25 years. List, Jackie Won said. “Because they knew the people there and knew the people there were sad. It’s painful.”
The US figure skating community is spreading to about 900 members, high schools and university clubs, according to US figure skating. However, in recent years, many sports elite skaters have worked and trained in a small number of hubs, including a part of the Boston, Delaware, and the Washington DC area.
Won said that the incident had a fierce emotional ripple effect in the whole figure skating community. Some of the communities have just been called for the national championship in Wichita. He also said about the changes in dynamics in sports.
“I think there was more rivalry a few decades ago,” Won explained. “Generally, skaters in various countries will train in their own country, and now there are a lot of mutual pollination in the geography and coaches. There are many friendships. Even if you are not yourself.
The relatively small and close nature of elite figure skating means that there were few people in sports that were only a few people on flight.
For example, in an interview with CBS News on Friday, the retired Olympic champion, Brian Biotano, reminds me that Vadim Naumov and Evgenia SHISHKOVA, the world champion of Russian Russian pair, have competed. Orbrite reminded me of the skating at a professional show by Spenge Rain (16 years old). And in the local television news report, clubs and ice -links nationwide shared stories of affected people or those who know how their figure skating community is sad.
“You can see it in social media, online forums, and social media,” said Laura Patterson, a coach of AZ ICE in Glivart, Arizona, said he worked as an official in Wichita last week. “In other words, we are all friends nationwide, whether you are an official or coach. Now everyone is reaching everyone.”
For many skate communities, including Orbright and Fleming, this tragedy quickly regained the memories of the last aviation disaster attacked by sports. 16 coaches, staff, judges, family.
Fleming coach Billy Kip was among people on a flight on the way to the World Championships in Prague. She was 12 years old at the time.
“Our community has previously experienced this. We know how to keep being strong, so we will overcome it,” said Fleming.
“My heart is directed to all the families who have lost their children and lost their mothers and coaches. That is, it’s terrible. It’s terrible to experience this again.”
Now, as at that time, the figure skating community is sad not only for the lost people, but also in the bright future lost with them.
U.S. figure skating held a national development camp in Wichita from Monday to Wednesday, exposing the top young skaters in Japan to high -level training. The camp was full of Winter Olympic players in 2030 and 2034, and the coaches were filled with Nahmov and Shishikoba, who were expected to lead them to the top of sports.
“If you lose such a coach, you will lose the future of sports,” said Doug Zigibe, the highest executive of the Boston skate club in Boston, at a press conference on Thursday.
89 -year -old Albright said that the club will miss some of the coach expert guidance and guidance and miss some teenage skaters walking along the front entrance of a club facility in Norwood, Massachusetz. She said it was strange that they couldn’t see their strength, smiles, and their improvements. But, as in 1961, they do their best to move on.
“Other skaters and other coaches are full, and I did it in many ways,” Ol Bright reminds me. “But the loss we all feel is always there.”
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