Little more than a month after a tragic air disaster took the lives of 28 members of the US figure skating community, emotions were on full display Sunday in Washington, DC, for the “Legacy on Ice” tribute.

Naumov skated to his parents' favorite song from their native Russia, then dropped to his knees at the center of the ice and sobbed. The crowd of about 15,000 people watching “climbed to its feet, applauded — and cried with him,