Dick Button dies at 95; men’s figure skating legend was well-known Olympic commentator
In addition to winning two Olympic gold medals and five consecutive world championships, he helped transform a niche sport ...
Olympic figure skater, commentator Dick Button dies at 95
Dick Button was more than the most accomplished men's figure skater in history. He was one of his sport's great innovators and promoters, the man responsible not only for inventing the flying camel ...
Dick Button, Olympic legend and figure skating commentator, dies at 95
The two-time Olympic gold medalist and five-time world champ was also an influential broadcaster for more than five decades.
‘Surreal, senseless’: Nashville Olympic figure skater remembers friends killed in DC plane crash
U.S. Figure Skating told NBC that several athletes, coaches and family members were on board of the American Airline jet. “It ...
Dick Button, first U.S. Olympic figure skating gold medalist, dies at 95
Dick Button, the legendary figure skater who became the first American to win Olympic gold in the sport, has died at age 95, according to The New York Times and The Washington Post, citing ...
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Dick Button, the pioneering ‘godfather’ of figure skating, dies at 95
At the 1948 Winter Olympics ... according to The Harvard Crimson. At the next Olympics, the Harvard senior became the first athlete to land a triple jump of any kind – a triple loop – at the 1952 ...
Dick Button, US figure skating pioneer, will always be 'godfather of this sport'
Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion in figure skating, embodied the sport. He is the 'godfather of this sport,' Tara ...
‘My heart is shattered’: Hall of Fame figure skater, Tennessean reacts to deadly plane crash
Olympic Gold Medalist and Tennessean Scott Hamilton shared a message after learning that members of the figure skating ...