The determine skating neighborhood will collect Sunday in Washington, D.C., to recollect the victims of the Jan. 29 plane collision that killed 67 folks, together with 11 younger skaters and members of their households.
The occasion, “Legacy on Ice,” shall be co-hosted by Olympic gold medalists Brian Boitano (1988) and Kristi Yamaguchi (1992). Greater than three dozen skaters, together with a who’s who of Olympians, have dedicated to take part within the exhibition, which can increase cash to help victims’ households, first responders and aviation professionals who labored on the scene. Funds shall be distributed to the U.S. Determine Skating Household Help Fund, Higher Washington Group Basis’s “DCA Collectively Aid Fund” and the DC Hearth & EMS Basis.
Practically half of the passengers aboard the American Airways aircraft that collided with a army helicopter on method to Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport final month had hyperlinks to the determine skating neighborhood. In all, 11 skaters between ages 11 and 16, 4 coaches and 13 others — all relations of the skaters — have been killed, in response to the U.S. Determine Skating.
The victims have been returning to their properties from Wichita, Kan., the place the U.S. nationwide championships have been held the prior week, adopted by a improvement camp for the younger skaters. They have been among the many 60 passengers and 4 crew members on the aircraft, none of whom survived the crash. The three army crew members on board the helicopter additionally died.
The exhibition shall be held at Capital One Enviornment in Washington, D.C. These scheduled to look embody Olympic champions Peggy Fleming (1968), Nathan Chen (2022), Scott Hamilton (1984), Ilia Kulik (1998), and the workforce of Madison Chock and Evan Bates (2022). Others embody silver medalists Nancy Kerrigan (1994) and Paul Wylie (1992).
Johnny Weir, a three-time nationwide champion, is popping out of retirement for the occasion.
“It is vital for me to indicate solidarity with the remainder of our neighborhood,” Weir instructed NBC4 Washington. “We should rebuild from this era that we have now misplaced. I stepped away from public performances a few years in the past, and to come back out of retirement would have taken one thing enormous. I believe I owe it to the those who we have misplaced to rejoice their legacy and to guarantee that folks remember all the pieces that, particularly these younger skaters, dreamt about, that we proceed to recollect them and stand at middle ice and take within the applause for them. … I could not not be part of it.”
“Legacy on Ice” will stream dwell on Peacock from 3 to five p.m. ET on Sunday. NBC is scheduled to air it at 1 p.m. ET on March 30.
–Subject Stage Media