The figure skaters who died in Wednesday’s plane crash are mourned not just because they were young and talented but because, to anyone associated with the sport, they are part of the family.

Global figure skating's tight-knit community was in mourning on Thursday after a passenger jet crash in Washington killed two ...

The passengers on the American Airlines flight included a group of figure skaters, their coaches, and family members. The ...

Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion in figure skating, embodied the sport. He is the 'godfather of this sport,' Tara ...

Dick Button was the first American Olympic figure skating gold medalist in the sport back in 1948, then again in 1952.

They were returning home from a camp for young figure skaters identified as having promise.

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out on Olympic medals, before moving to the U.S. and coaching generations of ...

President Donald Trump called a plane crash that has left 67 people presumed dead an "hour of anguish" but later claimed ...

A pair of World Champion Russian figure skaters were aboard an American Airlines flight returning from a development camp ...

President Donald Trump called a plane crash that has left 67 people presumed dead an "hour of anguish" but later claimed ...

Several figure skaters have spoken out after American Airlines Flight 5342 crashed into the Potomac River. News broke on ...

In 1961, the entire U.S. national team lost their lives in a plane crash en route to the world championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.