Figure skater Maxim Naumov is headed to the Olympics, almost one year after losing both his parents in the 2025 mid-air collision over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. Naumov, 24, qualified by finishing third at the 2026 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in St. Louis on Sunday, January 11. "I thought of them immediately," Naumov said of his parents, according to U.S. Figure Skating. "I wish they could be here to experience it with me, but I do feel their presence, and they are with me." Naumov was one of 16 skaters to qualify for Team USA on Sunday.