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Norwood, Massachusetts – 30 January 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Doug Zeghibe, CEO of The Skating Club of Boston:
"We were informed of a pretty horrific tragedy. To the best of our knowledge, 14 skaters returning home from the national development camp at Wichita, Kansas, put on by US Figure Skating were lost in the plane crash at Washington, D.C.. Of those 14 skaters, six were from The Skating Club of Boston. Two coaches, two teenage athletes and the athletes’ moms."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Doug Zeghibe, CEO of The Skating Club of Boston:
"Six is a horrific number for us. But we’re we’re fortunate and grateful there wasn’t more than six. This will have long reaching impacts for our skating community. The two coaches are Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, top coaches. They were the 1994 world pair champions, and they came to us in 2017 and were very much a part of our building the competitive skating program here at The Skating Club of Boston."
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STORYLINE:
Two teenage figure skaters, their mothers and two world champion coaches from Boston were among the 14 members of the skating community killed when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday night and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River.
All 64 people on the plane are feared dead, as are three soldiers on thew helicopter.
Skating Club of Boston CEO Doug Zeghibe said Thursday that skaters Jinna Han and Spencer Lane were among those killed, along with 1994 pairs world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov. In all, 14 of the victims were coming back from a national development camp following the U.S. Championships in Wichita, Kansas, Zeghibe said.
“Skating is a very close and tight-knit community. These kids and their parents, they’re here at our facility in Norwood, six, sometimes seven days a week. It’s a close, tight bond,” Zeghibe said.
“This will have long-reaching impacts for our skating community,” he added.
The Kremlin also confirmed that Shishkova and Naumov were aboard. They moved to the U.S. and became coaches, first at the International Skating Center in Connecticut and since 2017 at the Boston club that has served as a training ground for world-class skaters since 1912.
Among their students is their 23-year-old son, Maxim, a former U.S. junior champion. He has finished fourth at senior nationals the past three years, narrowly missing the podium Sunday while his parents watched at INTRUST Bank Arena in Wichita; he flew home Monday with Zeghibe.
AP video shot by Rodrique Ngowi
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