The history of the Skating Club of Boston is the history of American figure skating. In good times and in bad.
Jinna Han, 13, and her mother Jin, were among the Boston-based victims killed in Wednesday's horrific plane crash in DC.
The D.C. plane crash wasn't the Skating Club’s first airline tragedy. Ten members of the U.S. figure skating team were killed in 1961.
Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River included athletes returning from the U.S.
Nancy Kerrigan stepped to the microphone at the Boston Skating Club in Norwood, Massachusetts, visibly shaken.
Footage from recent competitions of teenage Boston figure skaters killed in a Washington, D.C. plane crash was released by the Skating Club of Boston.
US figure skating great Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion whose technical prowess revolutionised the sport has died aged 95, US Figure Skating announced."Richard 'Dick' Button, whose pioneering style and award-winning television commentary revolutionised the sport of figure skating,
The American Airlines mid-air collision that claimed 67 lives, included six people with ties to The Skating Club of Boston in Norwood, which is the epicenter of the sport in the area.
Two young figure skaters, two of their parents and two highly-regarded Russian figure skating coaches were among those killed after an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac River.
The Skating Club of Boston, which lost six community members in the D.C. plane crash, suffered a similar tragedy in 1961.
Jinna Han and Spencer Lane, two skaters training at the Norwood club, and their mothers were killed. Two coaches at the facility were also among the victims.