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Ice skating legends Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding have given emotional answers to the devastating deaths of other artistic skaters in the Washington DC plane crash.
On Wednesday (January 29), an American Airlines flight crashed into a Black Hawk helicopter from the army in Washington, DC, near the Reagan Washington National Airport. The 67 on board are afraid that both planes will die, including six members of an artistic skating club by Massachusetts. The Boston skating club in Norwood, Massachusetts, then confirmed that six of its members were aboard the American Airlines flight: two skaters, two coaches and two parents.
Among the alleged dead are the 16 -year -old skaters Spencer Lane and Jinna Han, along with their Mothers Christine Lane and Jin Han. The former Olympics Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who won the world champions of 1994 artistic skating as couples that represent To Russia and they were a couple, they were also on the flight.
Kerrigan spoke Thursday at the Boston skating club during a press conference and cried. She said “was not sure how to process” the devastating loss of skating club members.
“Children really work hard,” he said. “His parents work hard to be here. But I feel for athletes, skaters and their families. [And] Anyone who was on that plane, because it is such a tragic event. ”
The silver medalist continued to share that his response to the tragedy was to be with people who care and love him. “I needed support,” he added. “That's why I'm here. I don't know, a little at the same time. I think it's a shock. ”
During the press conference, Kerrigan said that while he never worked with Shishkova or Naumov, both coaches in the skating club, “he has seen them many times over the years.”
“They were always cozy and happy to see,” he said about the couple. “Enter here and not see that, I think it would be very strange for all who come here. Especially those who are here day after day. ”
The former skateboard Figure Tonya Harding tweeted a message about lost lives in the plane crash.
“The events that took place last night in Washington, DC are absolutely devastating,” he wrote on Thursday (January 30). “They tell me that several professional figures skaters were also aboard the flight. Sending my love and prayers to all victims and their families. ”
Throughout their successful skating races, Harding and Kerrigan were rivals. They were involved in an international controversy in 1994 when Kerrigan was attacked by a man hired by Harding's ex -husband, a dramatized scandal in the 2017 film I, TonyaStarring Margot Robbie as Harding.
After the American Airlines accident, the American artistic skating said that athletes, coaches and family members returned from the National Development Camp held together with the United States figurative skating championship in Kansas.
“We are devastated by this indescribable tragedy and keep close to the families of the victims in our hearts,” he said in a statement.
Inna Volyanskaya, a former skater who competed for the Soviet Union, was also on the flight, according to Virginia's representative Suhas Subramanyam, who shared the news in a publication about X (previously Twitter). He was an ice skating coach for Ashburn Ice House in Virginia.
Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko, who are skating partners, were not on the flight with the other skaters, the head of his training school, said the director of the ICE academy for world champions Jamal Othman. IndependentContradicted reports in the Russian media.
The collision in the air occurred when the passenger plane, which was traveling from Wichita in Kansas, was in the approach to land in Reagan. Radio communications between the air traffic control tower and the Black Hawk suggested that the helicopter crew knew that the plane was close.
