'Not sure how to process it': Tearful Nancy Kerrigan on plane crash that killed skaters from her home club
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Updated: 2:01 PM CST Jan 30, 2025
Not sure. How to process it. Oh shoot, I'm sorry. Mm Which is why I'm here. Many of you may know my husband's my agent and he keeps getting calls to do interviews and I thought that was weird. I didn't. Feel like it was right to be home and have doing interviews for this. So I called Een. I'm like, what are you doing? I think we just all need to go together and she said, let me call my mom and so we're like, OK, we'll meet you in an hour and we just wanted to be here and be part of our community, um. I've never seen anyone love skating as much as these two, and that's why I think it hurts so much and. I mean, everything. Tenley's always here supporting the kids and anytime I've been able to be here and watch them grow, the kids here really work hard, their parents work hard to be here, but I just, I feel for. The athletes, the skaters, their families, but anyone that was on that plane, not just the skaters, um, because it's just such *** tragic event and. We've been through tragedies before as Americans, uh, as people, and we are strong. respond to it. And so my response was to be with people I care about and I love and I needed support. So, um, so that's why I'm here and I don't know, *** little bit at *** time. I think it's *** shock. I was watching, I wasn't woken up in the morning and saw it. I was watching like all night, so I probably look tired, but, uh, and then when you find out, you know. You know some of the people on the plane is. Um, even *** bigger blow, um. And we just wish them well and like the families, the courage and the strength to make the next steps. I don't know how you look at people go through tragedies and you wonder how do they do it. I don't know, but we're so strong somehow we have *** reservoir to dig from and each one of them are strong enough to get through this somehow it will take time, but. Look beside you there's somebody that cares and I don't know, tell people around you that you love them because you just never know. Don't forget to say it.
'Not sure how to process it': Tearful Nancy Kerrigan on plane crash that killed skaters from her home club
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Updated: 2:01 PM CST Jan 30, 2025
Olympic medalist Nancy Kerrigan said she's "not sure how to process" the news that a Washington, D.C., plane crash killed 14 members of the U.S. figure skating community, two of them skaters with the Skating Club of Boston. The crash also took the lives of two parents and two coaches both associated with Skating Club of Boston. Kerrigan, a Massachusetts native, spoke at her home club alongside fellow figure skating legend Tenley Albright and the Skating Club of Boston CEO, Doug Zeghibe."We just wish them well, and (wish) the families the courage and the strength to make the next steps," a tearful Kerrigan said. Zeghibe said two teenage figure skaters, two parents and two coaches were among members of the U.S. Figure Skating team who were on the American Airlines plane that collided with a military helicopter, sending both aircraft into the Potomac River on Wednesday evening. The skaters were identified as teens Jinna Han and Spencer Lane, who were accompanied by their mothers, Jin Han and Christine Lane. Russian-born former world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who coached young skaters for the Skating Club of Boston, were also on the plane. The coaching pair was married and their son Maxim Naumov had just competed in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas, placing fourth overall in the senior men's division. Maxim was not on the flight and is believed to be safe. "You look at people go through tragedies, and you wonder, 'How do they do it?' I don't know. But we're so strong," Kerrigan said. "Somehow, we have a reservoir to dig from, and each one of them are strong enough to get through this somehow."It is not believed any of the 64 people aboard the American Airlines jet or the three soldiers on the helicopter survived.
NORWOOD, Mass. — Olympic medalist Nancy Kerrigan said she's "not sure how to process" the news that a Washington, D.C., plane crash killed 14 members of the U.S. figure skating community, two of them skaters with the Skating Club of Boston. The crash also took the lives of two parents and two coaches both associated with Skating Club of Boston.
Kerrigan, a Massachusetts native, spoke at her home club alongside fellow figure skating legend Tenley Albright and the Skating Club of Boston CEO, Doug Zeghibe.
"We just wish them well, and (wish) the families the courage and the strength to make the next steps," a tearful Kerrigan said.
Zeghibe said two teenage figure skaters, two parents and two coaches were among members of the U.S. Figure Skating team who were on the American Airlines plane that collided with a military helicopter, sending both aircraft into the Potomac River on Wednesday evening.
The skaters were identified as teens Jinna Han and Spencer Lane, who were accompanied by their mothers, Jin Han and Christine Lane. Russian-born former world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who coached young skaters for the Skating Club of Boston, were also on the plane. The coaching pair was married and their son Maxim Naumov had just competed in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas, placing fourth overall in the senior men's division. Maxim was not on the flight and is believed to be safe.
"You look at people go through tragedies, and you wonder, 'How do they do it?' I don't know. But we're so strong," Kerrigan said. "Somehow, we have a reservoir to dig from, and each one of them are strong enough to get through this somehow."
It is not believed any of the 64 people aboard the American Airlines jet or the three soldiers on the helicopter survived.
