via Collins family
Tom Collins, an exuberant promoter whose star-studded Champions on Ice tours capitalized on surging interest in figure skating in the 1980s but ended when the sport’s popularity in the United States faded two decades later, died on Sunday at his home in Edina, Minn. He was 88.
His son Mark said the cause was complications of a stroke.
From 1969 to 2007, Mr. Collins’s troupes, which included Olympic and world-class amateur and professional skaters like Michelle Kwan, Brian Boitano, Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan and Johnny Weir, toured the United States.