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I am so happy with our results at our first finals together!
She celebrated the results on Instagram, captioning her post
Wendy was the heart of her family - a loving partner to her husband and a nurturing, joyful mother to her children,
the fundraiser's organisers wrote
All she wanted to do was help people, and DC, she thought, was the place to achieve her goals,
Raza saidWendy was not just beautiful on the outside, but was a truly amazing woman through and through,
Nate Shaffer saidI'm going to marry her."
Hashim Raza saidAsra was everything to us,
Hashim Raza, holding back tears with a quavering voice, said in a telephone interview as he traveled from Missouri to Washington to meet his sonHe was all-in on figure skating,
Douglas Lane saidThis is undoubtedly the worst day of my life,
Timothy Lilley told the television stationYou could not see Genia without breaking into a smile,
he said, using a nickname for ShishkovaRyan is fondly remembered as a guy who would fix things around the ROTC gym as well as a vital member of the Rifle Team",
In a Facebook post that was later removed, the ROTC wrote ... according to local media reportsI was so proud when Sam became a pilot,
wrote Lilley, himself a pilot, who was in New York at the time of the crashHe made flying fun for the passengers on the plane so they didn't get scared,
she saidWe watched Jinna just grow up here from just a tiny little tyke into this amazingly mature 13-year old,
Zeghibe said
The kids here really work hard, their parents work hard to be here,
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They were talented and beautiful people,
their former coach Ludmila Velikova said from St Petersburg, where she trained both skaters when they were childrenWe’ve been through tragedies before – as Americans, as people – and we are strong. And I guess it’s how we respond to it,
Kerrigan, a two-time Olympic medallist saidThere are truly no words to capture the depth of our sorrow,
she said
Any time there's a loss of these talented people like Spencer and Jinna... it really affects all of us. We're mourning their loss and we still have more people to find out about."
Four-time US champion Brian Boitano, the 1988 Olympic men's champion, called the deaths "a huge loss for the sport" and added
They were people producing champions of our future,
he saidI just, I feel for the athletes, the skaters, and their families but anyone who was on that plane, not just the skaters, because it's such a tragic event,
former U.S. figure skating champion Nancy Kerrigan said Thursday