Ice skating club reels from US plane crash deaths

A BBC correspondent visited the Skating Club of Boston, which had connections to six crash victims.

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Even at a club that has produced countless elite-level skaters - where the competition is as tough as it gets - the two stood out.

"They had been sought out and identified as the future of the sport," the club's CEO Doug Zeghibe told me while standing alongside the rink where the two athletes trained day in and day out.

"So, to see such promising talents snuffed out, it's hard. They really, truly were on the cusp of greatness and really, finally hitting their goals of representing not just the Skating Club of Boston but representing their country."

That talent, on full display in videos that show them both performing with a strength and maturity beyond their ages, was why they were invited to the High Performance Camp that followed the US National Figure Skating Championships in Wichita, Kansas, this week.

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