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Figure skating community in shock

CBS Texas on MSN · 2h

North Texas community mourns as tragedy strikes U.S. Figure skating community as victims identified in D.C. plane crash

U.S. Figure Skating is confirming several members of its skating community are among the victims of the Washington D.C. plane crash. One local figure skater said she knows firsthand just how much these individuals meant to the sport.

Figure skating community left reeling after many killed in plane crash near Washington, DC

As of Thursday night, 14 of those killed have been linked to the skating community, including members from clubs in the Washington area, Boston and Philadelphia. The Figure Skating Club of Omaha said the tragedy marks a horrific day for every family involved and the sport as a whole.

The Boston Globe · 10h

What we know about the six plane crash victims with ties to Skating Club of Boston

The American Airlines mid-air collision that claimed 67 lives, included six people with ties to The Skating Club of Boston in Norwood, which is the epicenter of the sport in the area.

Figure skating legend Dick Button dies

USA TODAY Sports on MSN · 6h

Dick Button, US figure skating pioneer, will always be 'godfather of this sport'

Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion in figure skating, embodied the sport. He is the 'godfather of this sport,' Tara Lipinski once said.

The New York Times · 3h

Dick Button, Olympic legend and figure skating commentator, dies at 95

Two-time Olympic gold medalist and five-time world champ was also an influential broadcaster for more than five decades.

The Associated Press on MSN · 6h

Dick Button, Olympic great and voice of skating, dies at 95

Olympic figure skating great and authoritative commentator Dick Button has died at 95. Button's son, Edward, said he died Thursday and did not provide a cause. Button won two Olympic gold medals, the most accomplished men's figure skater in history. He also was the voice of his sport and one of its greatest innovators.

9hon MSN

Teens from a Boston skating club, their mothers, and coaches among passengers killed in air crash

Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River ...

2hon MSN

A groom-to-be pilot, daughter of Indian immigrants and figure skating champions are among DC air collision victims

Sam Lilley, a young fiancé awaiting his fall wedding, was piloting the American Airlines flight that was minutes away from a ...

19h

Russian skating couple, world champions in 1990s, were in crashed US airliner

Russian-born ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were aboard the American ...

7h

Skating Club of Boston has a glorious — and tragic — history

The club has been the standard-bearer for American figure skating for more than a century. On Thursday, it became the ...

6hon MSN

Watch: Tara Lipinski, Nancy Kerrigan, others react to figure skating tragedy

Figure skating luminaries reacted Thursday to the deadly plane crash that claimed the lives of several youth figure skaters, ...

6h

Teen skating phenoms, ex-world champions among victims of Washington air crash

World champion figure skaters, a pilot planning his wedding and teenaged skaters seen as the "future of the sport" were among ...

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