Ice skaters coil the US plane crash

In the Boston Skating Club no one doubt that 13-year-old Jinna there and 16-year-old Spencer Lane would go in love with a distance.

Even in a club produced by the many elite skaters, it is as tough as the competition, both stand out.

“It was the future of the sport and identified” Club’s General Manager Doug Zeghibe told me to stand with the track that two athletes trained on the day.

“So it’s hard to get hopeful talent, it’s hard. They were really in the torch of greatness, but eventually they achieved the goals that represent their country.

This talent, beyond age, showing videos with strength and adulthood, why were the national figure skating championships in Wichita, Kansas this week.

After the camp, they entered a Jet of the American Wednesday evening in the American Airlines, planning to fly home through Washington DC. Jet had a helicopter between the 60 passengers who had a half-air collision and fell on the river Potomac.

Their mother, Christine Lane and Jin Han, and Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova coaches were also on the boat, which is connected to the skating club around the world.

High-level skating requires a tremendous commitment, each day the school work they are doing online each day.

Inevitably, close relations are developed among coaches and club members and, in front of this disaster, is a natural place to collect the club.

A few days ago, the members of the Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov club wich the US couples earlier before making a flight earlier.

“They were just two sunlights that you get as soon as I saw energy,” Efimova told me.

“Every time I went into this ice rink, I would see her in the morning to tie her skates, saying, saying” Hello “, they turned on the faces.

“Spencer was a firecracker, that’s the best way to put that,” Mitrofanov added.

“He started skating rather than other skaters, but for his amazing talent, he moved forward so fast.”

At the end of the hard day’s workout, they told me, both removed the skates and would take it on the top floor to start catching in the academic work.

Now, at the entrance of the club, photos that catch the movement on the ice are surrounded by tribute and flowers. Jinna’s arms stretched. Spencer keeps the look of deep attention in the face.

“You don’t expect,” Mitrofanov said. “And when it happens, it breaks you.”

Coach NaMov and Shishkova, originally Russian, 1994 world champions. They leave a 23-year-old son, Maxim, who finished the fourth of a Fourth Wichita men’s competition in Boston.

In more than 100 years of history, the club has seen the clubs before the club can quickly shade through tragedy.

The 1961 World Championships were 18 members of the US Skating Group.

Zeghibe’s General Manager immediately thought that when he saw him spreading on Wednesday night.

“My first thought can’t happen again,” he told me. “And I was like me, how can lightning twice?”

One of the most popular students of the club, Nancy Kerrigan has also been in the club to show his solidarity and cry for six losses of life.

Silver medal before the winter Olympics of 1994, an attacker hit his knee after a practice session. He later revealed that the attacker husband husband hooked by the opponent of Kerrigan. Tonya Harding.

“The community was behind me and I appreciated that,” he said.

“And so it’s my turn now. I’m not sure what to do. Maybe take a coffee or a hug. I’m not sure, I want to get what I feel like I’ve got.”

In a few weeks, the club is organizing the world skating tournaments in the city in March.

It is a huge responsibility.

“It requires a lot of us, not only when running this club is not performing in the world championships, but now when managing the grief,” said Zeghib when I asked him how to deal with it.

The event will be a chance to honor lost life, but not only from this club. 14 members of the image skating community were killed in the accident.

“I think that looking at the future is part of the emotional healing process,” he said, “and it’s good to focus on the sport.”

“We take it day by day, as much as possible to our members, and then figure out: How do we move forward?”