Known for her beauty and grace on and off the ice, Peggy Fleming dominated women's figure skating from 1966 to 1968, capping her career with her triumph at the 1968 Olympic Winter Games.
In 1961, the entire U.S. figure skating team died in a plane crash. Losing a generation of top-level athletes and their coaches hobbled the U.S. The DCA crash and brought back difficult memories.
The United States figure skating world suffered a major loss on Thursday with the death of Dick Button. Button, who won gold medals at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics and later became a popular skating ...