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Olympic Gold Medal Scott Hamilton He kept tears on Friday as he remembered the victims of the Skating Community in a figure died after the American Airlines flight, who traveled from the Kansas Development Camp in Washington, DC, collided with a Midair military helicopter late Wednesday night.
The four -time world champion of men’s singles has been loved by victims during the performance today But he called the reality of this week’s tragedy “irresistible.”
Picture slider Scott Hamilton from the United States competing in skating competition at the XIV Olympics around 1984 in Sarajevo, Bosnia. (Focus on Sport/Getty Pictures)
“To happen just a few days after these championships were over, it’s just devastating, shocking – it just doesn’t make sense … We’re not a stranger in the tragedy, but this was just a devastation.”
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Officials said that 14 skaters, coaches and family members were on the ship American Airlines Flight 5342 when collided with the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter near the Reagan Washington National Airport, near DC, around 9pm.
Many victims were identified, including Evgenia Shishkova and I Vadim Naumov, Famous ice skating coaches that together won the 1994 World Cup title.
Evgenia Shishkova World Champions and Vadim Naumov from Russia perform a throw during a short competition of couples at the World Skating Competition in Edmonton, Albert, Canada, March 19, 1996. (Dave Buston/The Canadian Press by AP, File)
Young skating sisters from Virginia among the victims killed on the DC plane
Hamilton has become emotional When he spoke of a marital marital couple, who settled in America to become coaches after a successful career, culminating in two Olympic performances. He saw them just days before the collision as he attended the US Championship in Kansas skating.
“I actually sat with them a nice visit to Wichiti,” Hamilton recalled on Friday. “
“Think that they are gone, um, I can’t wrap my head around the last 36 hours. It’s just devastating, and the loss is only outside the description. My heart is broken.”
Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov from Russia perform during free skating in pairs of events of international sliding competition in NHK Trophy in Nagoya, Japan, December 9, 1995. AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File
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Shishkova and Naumov got married at Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1995, and they moved to Connecticut. They had a son Maxim, who competed in the men’s single in the US, he was in Kansas but did not travel with his parents. The Russian couple were coaches for the Skating Club in Boston.
Sixty passengers and four crew members on the American Airlines plane and three training sessions on a helicopter training flight is assumed to be dead.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
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