Canadian figure skater Alexandra Paul, a 2014 Olympic ice dancer and former national junior champion, has died at age 31, Skate Canada announced.
Police said Paul died in a car crash last Tuesday when a truck struck vehicles stopped at a construction zone in rural Melancthon Township in Southern Ontario.
Her baby son, Charles, was taken to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries suffered in the incident.
Paul and her long-time ice dance partner, Mitchell Islam, were married in 2021 and she gave birth to their first child last year.
“It is with a heavy heart that Skate Canada announces the sudden passing of a cherished member of our skating community, Alexandr…
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