Maxim Naumov makes US Winter Olympics team year after parents’ death in DC plane crash

• US Figure Skating names team for Milan-Cortina

• Naumov's parents were also Olympians

US Figure Skating has confirmed the 16 athletes who will represent Team USA at the Milan-Cortina Games next month in Italy, including Maxim Naumov, who fulfilled the hopes of his late parents by making the Olympic team.

Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, who were world champions in pairs figure skating in 1994 for Russia, became coaches at the Skating Club of Boston. Last January, they were returning from Wichita, Kansas, host of the 2025 US championships, along with 26 others connected to figure skating, when their plane collided with a military helicopter, killing everyone on board both aircraft.