Olympic Nancy Kerrigan mourns those killed on the American Airlines Flight 5342, especially athletes who represented her home club: a skating club in Boston.
Skater, 55, visited the club in Norwood on Thursday, January 30, Massachusetts, after learning about a deadly collision on Wednesday night between the commercial aircraft and Black Hawk helicopter.
“I told them, I have to be around you,” Kerrigan said exclusively for People. “I needed a community, support. It’s okay to ask for help and be there for each other.”
At least six passengers were related to the sliding club in Boston: coaches and former world couples Evgenia Shiskova and her husband Vadim Naumov; Skates Spencer Lane and his mother Christine; and slider Jinna Han and her mother Jin.
Other clubs from other clubs, including the Everly and Alydia Livingston sisters, also failed.
“It’s a heart,” said Kerrigan, a native of the nearby Stonehama, “All who died is someone.”
“I had to be here,” she told people after a long day of talking to other skates and their families. “This really hits home. The skating community has passed before the tragedy.”
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Kerrigan was related to the collision of a Saben Flight from Sabena 548 of 1961, which killed all 18 US skating teams on their way to the World Championship in Prague. The sliding figure, the control body of the sport, has established a memorial coope that will help the upcoming skates with their training costs.
Kerrigan also remembered the victims as he spoke with reporters outside the Boston Skating Club on Thursday. She became emotional as she shares that “she is not sure how to process” devastating loss. “I just wanted to be here and be part of our community.”
Athletes and coaches killed on Flightlines 5342 returned home from the Development Camp after 2025, the US Skating Championship, held the previous week.
“Our sport and this club suffered a terrible loss of this tragedy,” wrote Doug Zeghiba CEO on X. “We are devastated and completely in the loss of words.”
In a statement, Lane’s family said the 16-year-old “truly loved” sport.
“His climb from the basic learning for skates to the national development team to slide the American figure in just a few short years was unprecedented,” read. “We are so grateful that he was filled with joy last week and surrounded by his beloved skating club from Boston and the American family of skating.”
Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lilehammer.
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During her career, Kerrigan represented the Boston Club in Boston. She won a bronze medal at the 1992 Olympics in Albertville and a silver medal at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer.
Other famous club Alumni include Dr. Tenley Albright, the first American woman to win a gold medal in skating at the Olympic Games, double Olympic champion Dick Button, who died on Thursday, and 1992. Paul Wylie Olympic Silver Medal.
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