A Jan. 30 Threads post (direct link, archive link) claims a U.S. figure skater narrowly avoided being on the American Airlines flight that collided with a military helicopter in Washington.

The former U.S. National Silver Medalist and World Team Member has spent her life dedicated to figure skating, a sport that has shaped her identity and given her a lifelong purpose. “I’m not sure ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A local former competitive figure skater and coach at the University of Denver says she knew some of the victims of Wednesday’s mid-air collision into the Potomac River.

The passenger jet that was involved in a midair collision with an army helicopter in the Washington, D.C., area, carried both U.S. and Russian figure skaters, reports say. UPDATE (Jan. 31, 2025 ...

The young figure skaters whose lives were cut tragically short Wednesday night when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River were just ...

Figure skaters and others killed in the midair collision near Washington, D.C., on Wednesday will be honored when the world championships are staged in Boston in March. International Skating Union ...

29, 2025 in Washington. (The Skating Club of Boston via AP) A rose rests near the names of figure skating coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov on a commemorative wall Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, at ...

Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating and literally took the sport to new heights, died Thursday, US Figure Skating said. He was 95 years old. Button died ...

The international figure skating community was in shock Thursday as more details emerged about the tragic plane crash near Washington, D.C. that authorities fear has no survivors. U.S. Figure ...

A teenage figure skater who was aboard the doomed American Airlines flight that came crashing down in flames Wednesday night shared her hopes to represent Team USA in a video before her tragic death.

BRENTWOOD, Mo. – Hearts were heavy Thursday night across the figure skating community. Coaches and skaters with the St. Louis Skating Club held a practice at the Brentwood Ice Rink Thursday ...

U.S. figure skating legend Dick Button ... medals in the sport until 2018 when Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu repeated his 2014 success. Off the ice, Button graduated from Harvard University in 1952 ...