Where the Skating Club of Boston is based, a tearful Kerrigan told reporters, “I’m not sure how to process it, much like everyone here has been saying.” “The reason I’m here is to apologize.
The 56-year-old Stoneham native, who took home the silver in 1994 and bronze in 1992, spoke with media with gold medallist Tenley Albright.
Albright said that the incident on Wednesday night reminded him of the 1961 disaster that claimed the lives of eighteen members of the national team.
“Yes, there were really 22 of my friends on that plane in 1961 on their way to the world championships,” said Albright. “I was in my last year of medical school, so I was unable to travel,
But I’m sure I would have gone to support them. And I recall that years later, I was the object of odd stares. “Were you not on that plane?” they asked themselves as they discussed it.
Additionally, I hope those on that aircraft weren’t. And I’m not sure how to deal with this.” At the MedStar Capitals Iceplex in Arlington, Virginia, mourners came.
