Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating by completing the first triple jump in ...

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

“Dick was one of the most important figures in our sport,” said Scott Hamilton, the 1984 Olympic ... of figure skating and its quintessential voice,” Boitano, the 1988 Olympic champion ...

Olympic figure skating great and authoritative commentator Dick Button has died at 95. Button's son, Edward, said he died ...

All 64 people on board the plane–60 U.S. and Russian figure skaters and four crewmembers–along with three soldiers from the helicopter, are presumed dead. At least 28 bodies were pulled from the icy ...

Among UD-based skaters who excelled at the highest levels were the 1992 Olympic pairs duo of Calla Urbanski and Rocky Marval ...

19, 1948, in preparation for the Winter Olympics of 1948. (AP Photo, File) Dick Button of Englewood, N.J., U.S. and North American men’s figure skating champion, and winner of the European ... “Dick ...

I've said it a thousand times and I meant it a thousand times," Scott Hamilton, the 1984 Olympic ... first doing figure skating commentary for CBS' 1960 Winter Olympic broadcast in Squaw Valley ...

As an entrepreneur and broadcaster, Dick Button promoted skating ... of every Winter Olympics NBC Universal, Inc. Dick Button was more than the most accomplished men’s figure skater in history.