Russian figure skating pair Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were among those on board when an American Airlines flight ...

Former world champion Russian skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov died in American Airlines crash. The couple had ...

Many passengers were athletes and coaches leaving the U.S. Figure ... medals. They did not qualify for the 1998 Olympics and ended their skating careers to become coaches. Like many professional ...

Marina Eltsova, of Leawood, grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia ... figure skating competition in Wichita days before. Eltsova had captured photos of Shishkova’s son, Maxim Naumov, with his medal.

The two Russian figure skating coaches killed ... a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out on Olympic medals that year at the Lillehammer Games before ...

Two teenage figure skaters who died in the Washington plane crash that killed 67 people were poignantly remembered this week at the Asian Winter Games in China's Harbin. Nearly half of the passengers ...