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For Maxim Naumov, U.S. figure skater, an emotional night one year after tragedy
After competing Thursday, Naumov held up a picture of his parents, who died in a plane crash last January. Making the Olympic team would "mean the absolute world," he said. Stephanie Scarbrough / AP
The resilience they planted in him on display, forced by tragedy to blossom. The belief they bequeathed to him, every ounce of which he needed. The passion they poured into him, which he spilled onto the ice Thursday night.
Maxim Naumov ended his short program on his knees, panting rapidly, hands falling limp on either side. Having burned all the adrenaline and emotion and energy for two minutes, 46 seconds, he let the standing ovation inside Enterprise Center serenade him. The fans treated his wounds with their empathy.
Maxim Naumov’s emotional return to US Figure Skating Championships after parents’ tragic death
Maxim Naumov returned to the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Thursday night, the final place that his parents watched him compete, and managed to hold his emotions in check until a standing ovation carried the 24-year-old right off the ice.
Once in the kiss-and-cry area, Naumov finally allowed tears to trickle down his cheeks.
It was less than a year ago that his parents, former world champions Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, died when their plane crashed into a military helicopter on approach to Washington, D.C., and fell into the icy Potomac River. A total of 67 people were killed, including more than two dozen returning from a development camp following the U.S. championships in Wichita, Kansas.
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Through unimaginable tragedy, Maxim Naumov skates for an Olympic bid
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — It’s a perfectly routine photo, really, two proud parents holding the hands of their 2-year-old son, all of them on a skating rink in Connecticut. All of them are smiling, the little boy on white skates the widest of them all.
More than 20 years after that photo was taken, the boy — now grown and still skating, though on much more stylish blades — sat alone in St. Louis this week, staring silently at the photo. And then Maxim Naumov went out and skated one of the finest routines of his life, mouthing “thank you” to the heavens as he left the rink.
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