US EditionWorld skating championships pause to remember crash victims
- The Skating Club of Boston is hosting the World Figure Skating Championships at TD Garden, beginning Wednesday, March 26, 2025, marking the event's return to the United States since Boston last hosted in 2016.
- The championships are occurring shortly after the January 29th American Airlines Flight 5342 crash near Washington, D.C., where the plane collided with a military helicopter and plunged into the Potomac River, killing all 64 people on board, including 28 members of the figure skating community.
- Among those lost were six members of the Skating Club of Boston, including two young skaters, their mothers, and two world-renowned coaches, deeply impacting the American figure skating community.
- During the opening ceremony on Wednesday, skaters took the ice while a choir sang a solemn hymn, and U.S. Figure Skating interim CEO Samuel Auxier read a poem as a tribute to the victims, with Doug Lane, who lost his wife in the crash, sharing his hope for improved air travel safety.
- Inspired by the 1961 plane crash that killed the entire U.S. Figure Skating Team, U.S. Figure Skating has established a Family Support Fund to aid skating families directly affected by the tragedy, with the Boston Skating Club also considering a smaller, local financial aid program for younger youth.
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