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.
Nancy Kerrigan visited the Skating Club of Boston after six of its athletes died in a Wednesday, January 29, plane crash
U.S. Olympic figure skating icon Nancy Kerrigan spoke through tears as she remembered members of the skating community who are believed to be dead after the devastating crash of a military helicopter and American Airlines f light 5342.
Olympic star Nancy Kerrigan fought through tears as she spoke about those who were lost in a tragic plane crash, which occurred on Wednesday night.
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.
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.
As news trickled out about the victims of the Washington D.C. plane crash, the figure skating community mourned several of its own.
A dozen or more elite figure skaters were onboard the American Eagle flight that collided midair with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday night, officials said.
Spencer Lane, a 16-year-old figure skater from Rhode Island, and his mother, Christine Lane, 49, were among those killed in Wednesday night’s plane crash while en route from Wichita to Washington, D.C.
The club's chief executive, Doug Zeghibe, identified the skaters as 16-year-old Spencer Lane and 13-year-old Jinna Han. Their mothers are Christine Lane and Jin Han, and the coaches are Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov.