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

Here are eight athletes who, if they avoid mishaps along the way, could make a mark on the Milan-Cortina Olympics.

All 64 people on board the plane–60 U.S. and Russian figure skaters and four crewmembers–along with three soldiers from the ...

Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion ... passion that defined figure skating on network television for more than five decades, starting in 1960 on CBS with the Winter Olympics from what ...

Dick Button, one of the top figure skaters of all-time and an Emmy Award-winning figure skating commentator, died Thursday, ...

Dick Button was more than the most accomplished men's figure skater ... Button promoted skating and its athletes, transforming a niche sport into the showpiece of every Winter Olympics.

There was a time, and it wasn’t a short period of time at all, when figure skating was one of the ... competition at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, fans wept with him.

Olympic and world figure skating champion Dick Button has died at age 95. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Share NEW YORK — Dick Button was more than the most accomplished men’s figure skater in history.

Winter Olympics 1952 - Gold medal and first to perform a triple loop. Overall, he won five consecutive world titles from 1948 to 1952 and became one of the greatest figure skaters ever. Other than his ...