Skater Whose Parents Died in DC Mid-Air Collision

Last week was fairly heavy news-wise with the seize of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, the protests in Iran, and the capturing of leftist agitator Renee Good in Minneapolis, so let’s the start the new week off with some heartwarming news. American determine skater Maxim Naumov, who misplaced both of his dad and mom – who had been also his coaches – in the January 29, 2025 mid-air collision over the Potomac River close to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is on his manner to the Winter Olympics.

Naumov got here in third in this weekend’s U.S. determine skating championships being held in St. Louis, Missouri, making him one of the 16 Americans making up the 2026 Olympic staff headed to the Winter Olympics in Italy. He positioned behind U.S. champion Ilia Malinin and runner-up Andrew Torgashev.

Dream come true ✨

Maxim Naumov is headed to his first Winter Olympics.#MTUSA pic.twitter.com/3HOIdNR99T

— Team USA (@TeamUSA) January 11, 2026

Naumov’s dad and mom, Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, had been former world champions in pairs determine skating and represented Russia in the 1992 and 1994 Winter Olympics. They moved to the United States a few years later to coach at the Skating Club of Boston. They had been with their son last January at the 2025 U.S. championship in Wichita, Kansas; he left after the end of the competitors, but his dad and mom stayed on a few further day to attend some workshops.

His dad and mom stayed longer to attend a developmental camp. En route home, their American Airlines flight to Washington collided in midair with a navy helicopter over Washington’s Potomac River. The crash killed 67 people, 28 of them athletes, coaches or dad and mom linked to U.S. determine skating.

This is the crash involving an Army Black Hawk helicopter on a night time time training mission from Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and a industrial airliner making a commonplace method to Reagan National Airport. As PinkState has beforehand reported, preliminary stories from the National Transportation and Safety Board point out the Black Hawk was flying at too high a degree, placing it on a collision course with the passenger jet. The two plane collided and plunged into the icy waters of the Potomac River. There had been no survivors.

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Maxim Naumov was seen this week clutching a {photograph} of him as a youngster with his dad and mom. “I thought of them immediately,” Naumov said Sunday, according to U.S. Figure Skating. “I wish they could be here to experience it with me, but I do feel their presence, and they are with me.”

Maxim Naumov takes third at the U.S. National Championships with a mixed rating of 249.16. 🥉 pic.twitter.com/XDXuc0kXZP

— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) January 11, 2026

In recalling the difficulties of the past yr, Naumov recounted how far he had come since “not being able to lace up my skates and not knowing if I was going to compete” following the tragic deaths of his dad and mom. 

“I came into this competition thinking how grateful I am to even have the ability to compete and the fact that I overcame so, so much,” Naumov told reporters Saturday. “Looking back, even not being able to lace up my skates and not knowing if I was going to compete, let alone skate, what I did [Saturday] — I don’t even have the words, honestly, of just what I had to overcome to be here.”

The 2026 Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina will start February 6 and run through February 22. 

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie.  

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