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“It really goes home” (exclusive)

“It really goes home” (exclusive)

Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe by Getty Nancy Kerrigan at a press conference at the Boston skating club

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Nancy Kerrigan at a press conference at Skating Club of Boston

Olympian Nancy Kerrigan regrets killed On the flight of American Airlines Flight 5342, especially athletes who represented her home club: The Skating Club of Boston.

Skater, 55 years old, visited the club’s ice rink in Norwood, Massachusetts, on Thursday, January 30, after learning about Deadly Crash It happened between the commercial plane and the Black Hawk Hawk helicopter on Wednesday evening.

“I told them that I had to be nearby,” said Kerrigan only People. “I needed a community and support. It’s okay to ask for help and be there for yourself. “

At least six passengers were associated with the Boston skating club: coaches and Former world couple champions Evgenia Shiskova and her husband Vadim Naumov; skater Spencer Lane and his mother Christine; and Jinna skater Han and her mother Jin.

Skaters from other clubs, including Sisters Everly and Alydia LivingstonAlso died in an accident.

“It’s painful,” said Kerrigan, from nearby Stoneham, Mass. “Everyone who has died is someone.”

“I had to be here,” she told people after a long day of conversation with other skater and their families. “It really goes home. The skating community had previously passed through the tragedy. “

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Kerrigan referred to the Saben Flight 548 disaster from 1961, which killed all 18 members of the American skating team on the way to the World Championships in Prague. Figure card, the managing body of this sport, appointed Memorial Fund To help skaters in their training costs.

Kerrigan also He remembered the victims During a conversation with reporters in front of the Boston skating club on Thursday. She became emotional, sharing that “she is not sure how to process” a destructive loss. “I just wanted to be here and be part of our community.”

Athletes and coaches killed in American Airlines Flight 5342 returned home from the development camp after the US championships in the USA, which took place last week.

“Our sport and this club suffered a terrible loss with this tragedy,” wrote Doug Zeghibe’s general director on X. “We are devastated and we are completely lost in words.”

In a statement, the Lane family said that the 16-year-old “really loved” this sport.

“His entry from Basic Learn to Quate Classs is the USA National Team of Figure Programmers in just a few short years was unprecedented,” he read. “We are so grateful that his last week was full of joy and surrounded by his beloved Boston skating club and the American family of figure skating.”

Jerome Prevost/Tempsport/Corbis/VCG by Getty Nancy Kerrigan at the Winter Olympic Games in 1994 in LilehammerJerome Prevost/Tempsport/Corbis/VCG by Getty Nancy Kerrigan at the Winter Olympic Games in 1994 in Lilehammer

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Nancy Kerrigan at the Winter Olympic Games in 1994 in Lilehammer

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Kerrigan represented the Boston skating club throughout the qualifying career. She won the bronze medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Albertville and the Silver Medal at the Lillehammer Olympic Games in 1994.

Other well -known club graduates are Dr. Teley Albright, the first American woman who won the gold medal at figure skating at the Olympic Games, two -time Olympic champion Dick Button, who died on Thursday, and the Silver Olympic medalist in 1992 Paul Wylie.

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