U.S. Figure Skating announced earlier this month that it would be hosting "Legacy on Ice" at Capital One Arena in Washington, just a few miles from the site of the Jan. 29 crash over a portion of ...

In February 1961, the 18-member U.S. figure skating team died in a plane crash en route to the world championships in Prague. Also killed were six U.S. coaches and four skating officials, ...

On Feb. 15, 1961, the entire 18-member U.S. figure skating team headed for the 1961 World Championships in Prague died when its plane from New York plunged into a Belgian field while trying to ...

The multigenerational loss evoked painful memories of the 1961 plane crash that killed 73 people – including all 18 members of the US figure skating team headed to the world figure skating ...

Sports Figure skating community mourns victims of deadly plane crash collision: ‘At a loss for words’ All 67 people onboard the flight and helicopter are presumed dead ...

Yet as the figure skating community continued to grapple with the deaths of more than 15 skaters, coaches and parents in a fatal plane crash Wednesday night, the grief was not limited to the clubs ...

The skating world has endured tragedy before, when the entire U.S. figure skating team died in a plane crash in Belgium in 1961. “The 1961 crash really affected me. My coach passed away in that ...

Trainer mourns figure skating couple after DC plane crash in horrific family tragedy: ‘Best people have been taken away’ By . Jenna Lemoncelli. Published Jan. 30, 2025, 11:16 a.m. ET.

Members of U.S. Figure Skating were among those on the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night.

All members of the US delegation to the 1961 world figure skating championships were killed when their plane crashed in Belgium. Laurence Owen, the 16-year-old nicknamed "America's Queen of the ...

Yet as the figure skating community continued to grapple with the deaths of more than 15 skaters, coaches and parents in a fatal plane crash Wednesday night, the grief was not limited to the clubs ...

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 ...