As the figure skating community grappled with the deaths of more than 15 skaters, coaches and parents, the grief was felt ...

The close-knit community of figure skating will be tested to endure the tragedy in Washington, D.C.. But, as after the ...

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.

Wednesday's D.C. plane crash took the lives of several young figure skaters, a tragic echo of a crash that occurred in 1961.

That 1982 crash, in which the plane hit a bridge before plummeting into the Potomac River, unfortunately involved a former Chattanoogan as a deceased victim – Chalmers McIlwaine Jr., 41, the son of ...

Dick Button, the 2-time Olympic gold medalist and 5-time world champion who went on the become the voice of Olympic figure ...

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

Dick Button, the two-time Olympic gold medalist in men's figure skating (1948 and 1952), has died at age 95. He was also ...

The United States figure skating world suffered a major loss on Thursday with the death of Dick Button. Button, who won gold ...

Dick Button, winner of two Olympic gold medals and five straight world championships, died Thursday, said his son, Edward. He ...

The close-knit world of figure skating was in mourning on Thursday after a passenger jet carrying athletes and coaches, ...

Dick Button was the first American Olympic figure skating gold medalist in the sport back in 1948, then again in 1952.