Dick Button, the legendary figure skater who became the first American to win Olympic gold in the sport, died Thursday at age ...
The two-time Olympic champion who pushed his sport to new physical heights went on to become its television voice for ...
U.S. figure skating icon Dick Button, who won consecutive Olympic gold medals on the ice before he became the voice of the ...
The two-time Olympic gold medalist and five-time world champ was also an influential broadcaster for more than five decades.
Dick Button was more than the most accomplished men's figure skater in history. He was one of his sport's greatest innovators ...
Two days before the free skating portion of the Olympic Winter Games in 1948, 18-year-old Richard "Dick" Button successfully completed a double Axel for the first time. Despite its newness, he ...
He won an Emmy for his enthusiastic and sometimes acerbic analysis on sportscasts, but before that he made history as a two-time Olympic gold medalist.
Olympic figure skating great and commentator Dick Button dies at 95.