Ilia Malinin, the "Quad God" who won his second straight world championship on Saturday night, finished the show on Sunday with a performance that he said was dedicated to the plane crash victims. He came to the end, red-eyed and choking back tears.

The six victims of the deadly plane collision near D.C., with connections to The Skating Club of Boston, would have likely been in Boston for the championships this week.

Maxim Naumov received a standing ovation at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Boston on March 30, after skating in honor of his late parents, Evgenia 'Zhenya' Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who died in the Jan.