A Year After Losing His Parents in a Plane Crash, Maxim Naumov Makes His Olympic Debut

Jan. 29 will always be an emotionally loaded day for figure skater Maxim Naumov.

On that date in 2025, his parents and skating coaches Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov died in a plane crash over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., while returning home from a skating competition.

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This year, the week of Jan. 29, it was Naumov who was on a plane, heading to Italy to compete in his first Olympics.

When the men’s figure skaters take the ice in Milan...