Kaiyan Mao and Yu Zhou “were always there” as their son pursued his figure skating dreams. On Wednesday, the family flew together from Wichita to Washington.

The city had tried for years to host the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and to get a direct flight to the northeast.

He won an Emmy for his enthusiastic and sometimes acerbic analysis on sportscasts, but before that he made history as a two-time Olympic gold medalist.

At least 14 members of the U.S. Figure Skating team was onboard the American Airlines flight that collided with a helicopter Wednesday.

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Sixty-seven people were killed after an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army helicopter collided and crashed into the Potomac River.