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Within days of the tragedy, the U.S. Figure Skating Executive Committee established the 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Memorial Fund to honor the 18 team members and their entourage who died in the crash. [22] The fund's mission was to help rebuild the U.S. figure skating program [4] by providing financial support for promising young skaters. [5]
For many in the skating community, including Albright and Fleming, the tragedy immediately brought back memories of the last aviation disaster that hit the sport: A plane crash on Feb. 15, 1961 ...
United States Figure Skating was once a world power — from the 1952 Olympics in Oslo through 2006 in Turin, the Americans won 19 of a possible 45 medals, including seven golds, in women’s ...
The multigenerational loss evoked painful memories of the 1961 plane crash that killed 73 people – including all 18 members of the US figure skating team headed to the world figure skating ...
One of the most prestigious training grounds in figure skating, the Skating Club of Boston produced Olympic and world champions Dick Button — who died Thursday at age 95 — and Albright, Olympic medalists Nancy Kerrigan and Paul Wylie and scores of U.S. champions — including Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov, who won the pairs in Wichita ...
An entire U.S. figure skating team died in a plane crash on Feb. 15, 1961. The plane, Sabena Flight 548, was carrying the team to the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
On Feb. 15, 1961, the entire U.S. figure skating team died in a plane crash in Belgium on its way to the that year's world championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. ... and other figure skating officials. The Olympic gold medalist ... last night's horrific plane crash include former competitive figure skater and ...