{"id":37097,"date":"2025-03-27T02:42:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/frozen-in-time-figure-skating-world-unites-in-grief-and-tribute-at-boston-world-championships\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:42:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:42:30","slug":"frozen-in-time-figure-skating-world-unites-in-grief-and-tribute-at-boston-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/frozen-in-time-figure-skating-world-unites-in-grief-and-tribute-at-boston-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Frozen in time\u2019: figure skating world unites in grief and tribute at Boston world championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As figure skating\u2019s world championships <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/26\/world-figure-skating-championships-womens-short-program\">began in Boston<\/a>, a ceremony was held in honor of the 28 members of the sport\u2019s community who died in January\u2019s midair collision<\/p>\n<p>The lights dimmed, the arena fell silent and a sport took a collective breath. On Wednesday night at TD Garden, the world figure skating championships paused between events for something far more profound than medals or scores: a solemn tribute to the 28 members of the skating community who died in January when American Eagle flight 5342 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/washington-dc-plane-crash\">crashed into the Potomac River<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Held after the women\u2019s short program and before the start of the pairs\u2019 short program, the ceremony honored the skaters, coaches and parents who were returning from a development camp held in conjunction with the US figure skating championships in Wichita, Kansas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/26\/figure-skating-plane-crash-tribute-world-championships\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As figure skating\u2019s world championships began in Boston, a ceremony was held in honor of the 28 members of the sport\u2019s community who died in January\u2019s midair collision The lights dimmed, the arena fell silent and a sport took a collective breath. On Wednesday night at TD Garden, the world figure skating championships paused between &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Frozen in time\u2019: figure skating world unites in grief and tribute at Boston world championships\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/frozen-in-time-figure-skating-world-unites-in-grief-and-tribute-at-boston-world-championships\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Frozen in time\u2019: figure skating world unites in grief and tribute at Boston world championships\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}