It’s a big part of our identity, is we fall down, we get up. We get injured, we get up,” skating icon Scott Hamilton said.

Organizers of a figure skating benefit event in Washington, D.C. said they have already raised $1.2 million for victims of the plane crash over the Potomac River and first responders.

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,