As the Chesapeake Open kicks off for figure skaters, the community is still reeling from the tragedy of the D.C. midair ...

WICHITA, Kansas -- Figure skaters often say they are competing only against themselves. That certainly has become the case for Ilia Malinin at the Prevagen U.S. Championships. The reigning world ...

Malinin lost several friends in the deadly American Airlines collision. He was also in Wichita, Kansas, at the figure skating championship that so many passengers on the plane were attending.

Start your day informed: Sign up for USA TODAY's Daily Briefing newsletter. Ilia Malinin performs during the 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Saturday in Wichita, Kansas.

Ilia Malinin performs during the 2025 U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Saturday in Wichita, Kansas. Also on the flight were Russian-born coaches and former 1994 pairs world champions Evgenia ...

Reigning World Champion figure skater Illia Malinin, who won the competition in Wichita that his teammates had left from before dying in the plane crash in DC, posted on Instagram on Thursday, Jan ...

The tight-knit figure skating community was rocked when an American Airlines flight carrying athletes, parents and coaches from a development camp in Wichita, Kansas, collided with an Army ...

14 skaters, coaches and their families were aboard the flight on their way back from the 2025 Prevagen U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kan., which Malinin won on Sunday, Jan. 26 ...

Ilia Malinin, the reigning world and national champion in men's figure skating, was not aboard the plane that fatally collided with a military helicopter over the Potomac River on Wednesday.

U.S. Figure Skating has said in a statement that "several members" of its community were aboard the flight, which was inbound from Wichita, Kansas – the site of last week's national figure ...