American figure skater qualifies for first Olympics one year after parents killed in DC plane ...

Maxim Naumov, a 24-year-old figure skater, was named to the United States’ Winter Olympic team for next month’s games in Milan one year after his parents — former figure skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov — were killed in a plane crash. The couple — two-time Olympians who won the World Championships in pairs in 1994 — were among the 67 people killed when an American Airlines plane collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River in January 2025. Naumov finished third at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships over the weekend in St. Louis, and in an emotional scene Thursday, he held a photo of...