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US figure skating team: Figure skating: Sabena: Boeing 707: Brussels, Belgium: 73: 25: Entire team killed while en route to the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 3 April 1961: C.D. Green Cross: Association football: LAN Chile: Douglas C-47A-35-DL: Llico, Chile: 24: 8: Eight members of the team killed. [10] 6 February ...
Sabena Flight 548 was a Boeing 707-329 [1] flight operated by Sabena that crashed en route from New York City to Brussels, Belgium on 15 February 1961.The flight, which had originated at Idlewild International Airport, [2] crashed on approach to Brussels Airport, killing all 72 people on board and one person on the ground. [3]
Walter S. Powell (16 August 1879 [1] – 15 February 1961) was a director and manager for Brown Shoe Company, president of the St. Louis Skating Club, [2] and president of the United States Figure Skating Association from 1943 to 1946. He was born in Greenbackville, Virginia. After his term was complete, Powell remained very active in the ...
Also in 2015, WFSS' Skating Hall of Fame was formed and the first World Figure Championship on black ice was held [1] [6] and renamed the World Figure and Fancy Skating Championships, or WFFSC, after the literary skating masterpiece that was written in 1895 by George A. Meagher, (The Champion Figure Skater of the World starting in 1891).
At 25-years-old, Glenn said she knows wisdom comes with age, but age isn’t an advantage to competitive figure skating. As she puts it, “It's a double-edged sword.”
The 1961 U.S. Figure Skating Championships was held at the World Arena in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from January 25 to 29, 1961.Medals were awarded in three colors: gold (first), silver (second), and bronze (third) in four disciplines – men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing – across three levels: senior, junior, and novice.
Terry Kubicka from the U.S. was the first figure skater to successfully execute a legal backflip at the Olympics, during the 1976 Winter Olympics. [3] Kubicka got the idea of using the backflip in his skating from Evy Scotvold, his coach, who wanted to help advance athleticism in figure skating and to go beyond the triple jumps that were the most difficult elements in the sport at the time.
Virginia Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine called a "near crash" at Ronald Reagan National Airport on Thursday morning a "horrifying example" of the effects of efforts to undermine slot and ...