US EditionFigure skating’s world championships are headed to Boston, another chance to heal after DC crash
- Boston will host the figure skating world championships, honoring the three young skaters and two coaches who died in a January crash in Washington, DC.
- A gala earlier this month raised over $1.2 million for the families affected by the tragedy, featuring performances from notable skaters.
- International Skating Union president Jae Youl Kim announced plans to honor the victims during the competition's opening night.
- The tragedy included the deaths of three young skaters and their coaches, resulting in a significant loss for the figure skating community.
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The Boston skating community hosts the world championships even as it mourns plane crash victims
The chairs where Jinna Han and Spencer Lane used to sit are still there, and covered with gifts: cards and cookies, plants and pictures — anything that might have sparked a connection for their friends and fellow skaters.Photographs, drawings, a South Korean flag, hearts cut from construction paper or bent out of pipe cleaners and so many stuffed animals that they are in danger of spilling off the white plastic folding chairs just like all of th…
Figure skaters to honor those lost in DC plane crash at World Championships in Boston
BOSTON (WWLP) - It's been nearly two months since the deadly mid-air collision in Washington, D.C that killed 67 people on board, including six members of the Boston Skating Club. Twenty-eight of the passengers on American Airlines Flight 5342 were members of U.S. Figure Skating. They traveling back from the national development camp in Wichita, Kansas. Six members of the skating club of Boston tragically lost their lives: Jinna Han, Jin Hee Han…
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Bridging the political divide: US and Canadian skaters hope sports can unify during worlds in Boston
BOSTON (AP) — American ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates always have been treated with such kindness and support from the people in their longtime training base in Montreal that Canada has become a second home for them.
Skating world championships head to Boston two months after fatal DC crash
It has been nearly two months since American Airlines Flight 5342 lifted off from a wintry runway in southeast Kansas, destined for Washington, D.C., with dozens of members of the tight-knit figure skating community aboard it. They were just kids, accompanied by parents and coaches, who had been attending a development camp that followed the U.S. championships in Wichita. Many had posted on social media what they had learned — those jumps and sp…
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