{"id":105744,"date":"2026-02-10T09:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/maxim-naumovs-olympics-journey-after-parents-death-in-plane-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:28:08","slug":"maxim-naumovs-olympics-journey-after-parents-death-in-plane-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/maxim-naumovs-olympics-journey-after-parents-death-in-plane-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Maxim Naumov&#8217;s Olympics Journey After Parents&#8217; Death in Plane Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>Reflecting on what they talked about during nationals a year ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6962389\/2026\/01\/11\/maxim-naumov-olympics-us-figure-skating-team\/?searchResultPosition=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer\">he remembered<\/a> how Vadim told him consistency and resilience would be key to his success moving forward, &#8220;whether it was training, competing, off ice, on ice, all of that. And I carried that through all the way to this point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And after three straight years of finishing fourth, Maxim ended up in third place this year after his free skate, set to &#8220;In This Shirt&#8221; by <strong>The Irrepresibles<\/strong>. And that proved enough for a spot on the Olympics team with 2026 U.S. champion <strong>Ilia<\/strong> <strong>Malinin<\/strong>, dubbed the &#8220;Quad God,&#8221; and silver medalist <strong>Andrew Torgashev<\/strong>. His good friend Spencer is also in Milan, competing in pairs skating with partner <strong>Emily Chan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And Maxim&#8217;s parents are there, too, with him as always. \u201cI know they\u2019re looking down,\u201d he said upon punching his ticket to the Games. \u201cSmiling and proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See smiles, tears and more of the best candid moments from the 2026 Olympics:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1428390\/maxim-naumovs-olympics-journey-after-parents-death-in-plane-crash?cmpid=rss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflecting on what they talked about during nationals a year ago, he remembered how Vadim told him consistency and resilience would be key to his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}