Watch video of the 1994 performance of the married Boston area figure skate coaches who died in the Washington, D.C. plane ...

"What you learn in skating is you fall down constantly, but you get up," 1956 Olympic champion and U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame inductee Tenley Albright told USA TODAY Sports on Friday.

By Deborah Wilker Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating by completing the ... even after a fluke fall on the ice at age 70 left him with a skull fracture ...

Nearly half of the passengers on the plane that fatally collided with a military helicopter last week were members of the figure skating community ... this," 1968 Olympic gold medalist Peggy ...

"The two-time Olympic champion's pioneering style and award-winning television commentary revolutionized figure skating," U.S. Figure Skating said. "His legacy will live on forever. We extend our ...

Dick Button, who brought figure skating to American audiences as the first U.S. skater to win an Olympic gold medal and then as a longtime commentator, died Thursday at his home in North Salem ...

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.

"Dick Button is the custodian of the history of figure skating and its quintessential voice," 1988 Olympic champion Brian Boitano said in Button's autobiography. "He made the words 'lutz' and ...

Dick Button, the first American Olympic figure skating gold medalist, has died at 95. He won gold in 1948 and 1952, pioneering jumps like the double axel and the triple loop. Button later became a ...