Dick Button, the legendary figure skater who became the first American to win Olympic gold in the sport, died Thursday at age ...

At the beginning of Mr. Button’s career, figure skating contained two components: compulsory, or “school,” figures, patterns skaters precisely traced on the ice, once with each foot ...

US figure skating great Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion whose technical prowess revolutionised the sport has died ...

Dick Button, the legendary figure skater who became the first ... to music being played on records and were also judged on compulsory figures, or tracing patterns on the ice.

Hughes is the most recent American to win the Olympic Gold Medal in Women’s Figure Skating. She is a graduate of Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Stanford’s Graduate ...

US figure skating great Dick Button ... taking the sport to another level with his athleticism, excelling in compulsory figures and in free programmes which he peppered with his technical prowess.

Nearly half of the passengers on the plane that fatally collided with a military helicopter last week were members of the figure skating community, U.S. Figure Skating said in a statement Monday.