The Twin Rinks Ice Pavilion hosted a memorial exhibition Friday evening called Skate for the 28, honoring the 28 members of the figure skating community who died on the American Airlines flight involved in the Jan.

At the end of his figure skating performance, when the last note of his parents’ favorite song played in an arena packed with spectators and heavy with sorrow, Maxim Naumov dropped to his knees at the center of the ice. He remained there for what seemed like forever, awash in a spotlight, looking lost and sobbing.

It’s a big part of our identity, is we fall down, we get up. We get injured, we get up,” skating icon Scott Hamilton said.

Organizers of a figure skating event in Washington say they raised $1.2 million for victims of the D.C. plane crash and first responders.

The son of 1994 figure skating World Champions Evgenia “Zhenya” Shishkova and Vadim Naumov honored his late parents with a heartbreaking tribute following their tragic passing in the American Airlines D.