American figure ... U.S. Championships (1946-1952) and was the only American to win the European championship (1948). “No other figure skater embodies the sport as much as Dick Button," Tara ...

U.S. figure skating legend Dick Button, who won back-to-back Olympic gold medals before becoming the iconic voice of the sport on American television, has died. He was 95. Button’s passing was ...

Dick Button, the two-time Olympic champion who revolutionized figure skating and literally took the sport to new heights, died Thursday, US Figure Skating said. He was 95 years old. Button died ...

“Dick Button created an open and honest space in figure skating broadcasting where no topic or moment was off-limits,” said Johnny Weir, the three-time U.S. champion and current NBC Sports figure ...

There was a time, and it wasn’t a short period of time at all, when figure skating was ... then again in 1952, Button took the nation by the hand and escorted all of us into the often arcane ...

“Dick Button created an open and honest space in figure skating broadcasting where no topic or moment was off-limits,” said Johnny Weir, the three-time U.S. champion and current NBC Sports figure ...

NEW YORK — Dick Button was more than the most accomplished men's figure skater in history. He was one of his sport's great innovators and promoters, the man responsible not only for inventing ...

Dick Button, a two-time Olympic champion in figure skating, embodied the sport. He is the 'godfather of this sport,' Tara ...

Button died Thursday in North Salem, N.Y. U.S. Figure Skating said he died of natural causes. Advertisement "U.S. Figure Skating mourns the loss of the legendary Dick Button," U.S. Figure Skating ...