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 ...
Boston skating club trained Olympic champions. It has also shared in the sport’s pain
The history of the Skating Club of Boston is the history of American figure skating. In good times and in bad.
Dick Button, Skating’s Titanic Figure, Dead at 95
The two-time Olympic champion who pushed his sport to new physical heights went on to become its television voice for ...
Dick Button, the pioneering ‘godfather’ of figure skating, dies at 95
Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating and literally took the sport to new heights, ...
What we know about the figure skaters who were on the airplane that crashed in Washington, D.C.
They were returning home from a camp for young figure skaters identified as having promise.
World champion Russian skaters on American Airlines jet built a new life as coaches in the US
Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out on Olympic medals, before moving to the U.S. and coaching generations of ...
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 ...
Dick Button dies at 95: Olympic gold medalist was figure skating's superstar and professor
Dick Button was the first American Olympic figure skating gold medalist in the sport back in 1948, then again in 1952.