Scott Hamilton, who won the Olympic Gold Medal On Friday, tears hold the victims of the ice ski community who passed away after an American flight traveling from the Kansas Development Camp to Washington, DC, collided with a helicopter in the air at the late Wednesday night.
The individual world champion spoke four times frankly about the victims during the appearance today But he called the tragedy of this week “overwhelming”.
Scott Hamilton, skating from the United States, is competing in the ice skating competition at the Fourteenth Olympic Winter Games around 1984 in Sarajevo, Bosnia. (Focus on sports photos)
“In order for this to happen a few days after the end of these tournaments, it is a shocking and shocking destroyer – it is meaningless.
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Officials said that 14 skills, coach and family members were on the 5342 US Airways flight when it collided with the Black Hawk helicopter at UH-60 near Reagan Washington National Airport, near the capital, at approximately 9 pm local time.
Many victims have been identified, including Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, The famous ice coaches who won the World Championship together in 1994.
World Champions Ivjnia Shishkova and Vadim Nomov from Russia are carrying out a throw during the short competition of couples in the global ice skating competition in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on March 19, 1996. (Dave Buston/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
Hamilton became emotional When he talked about the spouses, who settled in America to become coaches after their successful career, which reached its climax in Olympic appearances. He only saw them a few days before the accident while attending skiing championships in the United States in Kansas.
“I have already sat with them on a nice visit in Witchita,” Hamilton recalls on Friday.
“To believe that they have gone, or, I cannot wrap my head over the past 36 hours. It has been destroyed, and losing out of description. My heart was shattered.”
Performing Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov from Russia during free skiing in the events of couples in the NHK Trophy International Ski in Nagiaa, Japan, on December 9, 1995. AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File
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Shechkova and Numov married St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1995, and they moved to Connecticut. They had a son, Maxim, who competed in the individual men in the United States was in Kansas but he did not travel with his parents. The Russian husband was trained in the ski club in Boston.
Sixon is supposed to be passengers and four crew members on the US Airways plane and three soldiers on a helicopter training flight.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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