US skater Maxim Naumov makes an emotional Olympic debut one year after losing parents in plane crash‎

U.S. figure skater Maxim Naumov carried the memory of his late parents with him to the Olympics on Tuesday night, delivering an emotional, heartfelt short program at the Milan Cortina Games that fulfilled a dream they had long shared together. Former pairs world champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were among the 67 people killed — more than two dozen of them members of the figure skating community — when American Airlines Flight 5342 crashed into a military helicopter on approach to Ronald Reagan National Airport and fell into the icy Potomac River on Jan. 29, 2025. One of the last conversations Naumov had with his parents was about what it would take to make the Olympics.