I knew that I had to go to the rink today,” Malinin said in a phone interview Thursday night, “but it got so bad that I had no strength, mentally or physically, to skate. It was very hard for me to be around a skating rink,

The U.S. Figure Skating Organization confirmed several members of the skating community were among the victims after the midair collision of an American Airlines passenger flight and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River in D.