Niina Petrokina fell, got back up, and completed the skate of her life. A freak fall on a transition between jumps threatened to derail Petrokina's bid for the European figure skating title but she ...

In 1961, the entire U.S. figure skating team died in a plane crash. Losing a generation of top-level athletes and their coaches hobbled the U.S. The DCA crash and brought back difficult memories.