Olympic Great Nancy Kerrigan struggles through tears as he talks about victims in a tragic plane crash
Nancy Kerrigan She spoke at a conference for an emotional journalistic conference on Thursday after six people with a skating club in which she competed died in the Air Force Tragedy near the Reagan International Airport near Washington, DC
Kerrigan is one of the decorated members Boston skating clubTogether with Dick Butt, Tenley Albright and Paul Wylie.
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Former Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan, right, was embraced as she arrived at the Skating Club in Boston with colleague Olympic slider Tenley Albright, left, on Thursday, January 30, 2025. In Norwood, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
The Olympic Silver Medal struggled through tears as she spoke with journalists. Albright stood next to Kerrigan.
“As everyone spoke here, I’m not sure how to process it,” she said, adding that her husband, who was her agent, was constantly receiving calls for interviews. “I didn’t feel like it was right to be home and to do interviews for that … We just wanted to be here and be part of our community.”
The Boston skating club identified Jinn Han and Spencer Lana as two athletes who were killed in a collision. Their mothers and two coaches were also identified as victims.
“I’ve never seen anyone like to skate as many of these two, and that’s why I think so much hurts me … … whenever I managed to be here and watched them grow, the kids are really tiring here. Their parents work hard to be Here, but I feel athletes, their skaters, their families, all who were on that plane, not just skaters, because it is just such a tragic event.
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Bodies lie on Earth next to an emergency vehicle, near the collision site after the US Eagle Flight 5342 collided with the Black Hawk helicopter as they approached the National Airport by Reagan Washington and demolished the Potomac River, Outside Washington, USA, USA, January 30 2025. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
“We have gone through tragedies before as Americans as humans, and we are strong, and I suppose that is how we react to it, and my answer is to be with the people I care about because I need support. That is why this is the reason here alone. “
Kerrigan hoped for families He would find courage And the strength to take the following steps.
Executive Director of Skating Boston Doug Zeghiba added that I Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, And Jin Han, the mother of Jinne, and Molly Lane, the mother of Spencer, were identified as other victims. He announced it in a statement earlier during the day.
“Our sport and this club suffered a terrible loss of this tragedy,” Zeghiba said in a statement published on social media. “Skating is a narrow community where parents and children gather six from seven days a week to train and work together. They are all like family. From skates, coaches and parents on the plane, we believe that six were from the Boston Skating Club.
Emergency units respond to the site of a US aircraft and Black Hawk helicopter on the Potomac River in Arlington, Virginia, Thursday, January 30, 2025, a commercial flight from Wichit in Kansas collided last night’s military helicopter. (Leigh Green for Fox News Digital.)
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“These athletes, coaches, parents returned from the national development camp of the American figure skating, after last week’s American Wichiti Championship. This camp is intended for young competitive skaters tomorrow with the promises to be the champion tomorrow. The club sent 18 athletes to compete in the American Championship.
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