Honoring Skaters Killed in Crash

This is a US news story, published by Yahoo Sports, that relates primarily to Dick Button news.

US news

For more US news, you can click here:

more US news

Dick Button news

For more Dick Button news, you can click here:

more Dick Button news

hockey news

For more hockey news, you can click here:

more hockey news

Yahoo Sports news

For more news from Yahoo Sports, you can click here:

more news from Yahoo Sports

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best sport news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like hockey news, you might also like this article about

US Figure Skating development camp

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest American skating news, US figure skating news, hockey news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

skating community

Guardian

•

Sports

‘Frozen in time’: figure skating world unites in grief and tribute at Boston world championships

Summary

Nutrition label

81% Informative

28 members of the skating community died in January when American Eagle flight 5342 crashed into the Potomac River .

Flight 5342 was carrying dozens of young skaters, their coaches and parents who had just attended a US Figure Skating development camp following nationals in Wichita , Kansas .

11 of the dead were skaters between the ages of 11 and 16 .

Skating Club of Boston produced champions such as Dick Button , Tenley Albright and Nancy Kerrigan .

The six local victims trained and taught at the club, where the six died in the crash.

Earlier this month , a gala tribute in Washington DC brought generations of figure skating stars together.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity